PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Central Tendency, Dependent And Independent Variables, Brilliant Mind

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Scope: therapy (small fraction) every single thing of live (large) Iraq war, q advertisement agent, lecture in congress. The need for psychological science: why, limits of intuition. Accurate (violently abused people) and misleading (science: bullet shooting in high speed and a bullet dropping from the same height reach the ground at the same time: limits of common sense. Only common sense after we learned or experienced. Natural tendency: after knowing all the facts in a situation, including the conclusion. Have the feeling that i could have easily predicted the outcome. I could have told you so: overconfidence. Tendency to overestimate how accurate our knowledge is. President of a computer company: there is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home. After the situation and go back to study the experts opinion. Tendency to see the relationship between variables when there are no relationships.