PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Illusory Correlation, Dependent And Independent Variables, Atorvastatin
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Definition of psychology: study of mental, behavioural processes, studies how we think, behave and feel. Scope: counselling/ therapy is a small part of psychology, it"s huge in medicine, relationship between mind and body, justice system, politics, human error, website design: a. Hindsight bias and overconfidence illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Essential to listen to intuition but sometimes it"s unreliable and misleading we cannot fully trust it. Is the result of learning and experience. Tendency to feel the conclusion was obvious and could have been easily forecasted. When we don"t know all the facts the conclusion really isn"t that obvious. Tendency to overestimate how accurate our knowledge is. Tendency to see a relationship between two unrelated variables. Pay attention to any event that supports our belief. Tend to remember more the events that support our belief. Uncertainty makes us nervous to avoid it we look for patterns.
