PSYC 2360 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Desirability Bias, Nuremberg, Internal Consistency
9 Oct 2012
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4 ways to learn about the world: 1) intuition, 2) logic, 3) authority, 4) observation. Behavioural research: research designed to study the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of humans and animals. Psychological research: research designed to study the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of, systematic empirical investigations designed to study the thoughts, humans and animals feelings, and behaviours of humans and animals. The intuition problem: accepting explanations without testing them thoroughly, may lead people to think they know things they do not really know, and accepting as truth, while there are other more possible/likely answers. Hindsight bias the tendency to think we could have predicted something we probably could not have predicted. The common sense problem: psychology must differentiate between contradicting common sense . Absence makes the heart grow fonder vs. out of site out of mind . Pseudoscience: any body of alleged knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that claims to be scientific but does not follow the scientific method.
