PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eye Tracking, Muscle Spindle, Neural Coding
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Evaluating claims: propose a mechanism, what are some implications if the claim is valid, what sort of evidence currently supports the claim. Infertile couples are more likely to conceive after they have adopted a child mechanism: lack of stress (due to finally having a child). Evidence: no correlation between adoption and being able to conceive. In reality this is an erroneous belief that is spread due to the saliency of the event (adoption), therefore people remember the pregnancies after this event rather than the ones that happen eventually without this event. Found by murphy in young boys when they would play the cello it would lead to a malformation of the scrotum (1974). 2009 murphy and his wife admitted to lying about the original claim. Many people believed this claim, because it was published in a scientific journal. Murphy had the intention of the claim being rejected, he did not expect it to be accepted for fact by scientists.