PSYB01H3 Study Guide - Confounding, Classical Conditioning, Random Assignment
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When you rely on intuition you accept what your personal judgment or a single story about ones experience tells u about the world intuitive approach takes several forms: Find explanation for our behaviors or for the behaviors of others. Problem with intuition is that cognitive and motivational biases affect our perceptions and so we draw erroneous conclusions about cause and effect. E. g. belief i"m gods increases ppls willingness to help others vs. does a god exist: peer review of research prevents inaccurate research from being published, integrating scientific skepticism, intuition and authority intuition and authority: ideas for research. Advantage of scientific approach is that it provides an objective set of rules for gathering, evaluating and reporting info. Pseudoscience uses scientific terms to substantiate claims without using scientific data. Goals of scientific research in psychology: to describe behavior, to predict behavior, to determine the causes of behavior, to understand or explain behavior description of behavior.
