PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Impulsivity, Attention

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Module 2 topics : the need for psychological science: overcoming human thinking tendencies such as: Hindsight bias: seeing meaning in coincidence and overconfidence error. Critical thinking : refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge than simply using intuition, will help us develop more effective and accurate ways. Hindsight bias i knew it all along like a crystal ball that we use to predict the past. Overconfidence error i am sure i am correct . The coincidence error or mistakenly perceiving order in random events: the dice must be fixed because you rolled three sixes in a row . We are much too certain in our judgements. We overestimate our performance, our rate of work, our skills, and our degree of self-control. People are much more certain than they are accurate. Overconfidence is also a problem on tests, if you feel confident that you know a concept, try explaining it to someone else.