PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Stout, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
2 Jun 2012
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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Three phenomena hindsight bias, judgmental overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. The point to remember is that all three of these phenomena often lead us to overestimate our intuition. But scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (also known as the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. ) Overconfidence: thinking we know more than we do. Perceiving order in random events: when sequences often don"t look random and are then over interpreted. The scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble: curiosity passion to explore and understand without misleading or being misled. The scientific attitude combines (1) curiosity about the world around us, (2) skepticism toward various claims and ideas, and (3) humility about one"s own understanding.
