PSYCH101 Midterm: Study notes from textbook! Very detailed & useful! Completely saved me for the midterm when I hadn't read appropriate modules yet!

• School: Conestoga College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Leeann Ferries

Document Summary

Intuition can lead us astray: imagine folding a sheet of paper on itself 100 times. Hindsight bias - the tendency to think that you would have forseen an outcome after it happened. Separate people in two groups and tell them: 1) separation weakens romance. Out of sight, out of mind 2) separation strengthens romance absence makes the heart grow fonder . In police lineups, people might be uncertain, but if told they were correct, after they will say there was no maybe about it . We tend to think we know more than we do. e. g. people are given three anagrams with solutions, and asked how long they think it would have taken to solve. They vastly overestimate the actual time it takes most people. Even when our initial predictions our wrong, those who were wrong often still say. Underlying all science is a passion to understand or explore. But more often it shows they are unbelievable.