PSYC 180 Study Guide - Medical Prescription, Karl Popper, Pseudoscience
8 May 2012
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Case studies can be used for exploratory analyses. Homeopathic remedies are largely propagated because of personal oddmatch. Evidence from systematic review on homeopathy suggest that: Clinical effects of homeopathy are not convincingly different from placebo. Finding an expected correlation in random events. Chance events may appear to result from predictable factors. You are given the task of predicting which side a fair coin will land on 100 times in a row. You are most likely to perform best if: You choose either heads or tails 100 times. Because they rely on personal information and professional expertise, clinical predictions are more accurate than actuarial predictions. Magic tricks draw on flaws in our cognitive and perceptual systems. Inattentional blindness differs from change blindness in that there is no need to compare the current scene with a scene from memory. They both rely on inherent properties of the visual system.
