PSYC 2360- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

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But logic alone is not enough - truth can seem strange: authority. Common knowledge truth is not a popularity contest: cognitive biases. Con rmation biases: whatever you believe to be true, you will look for in the world, experience. Humans are not so perfect that we learn perfectly from experience: we don"t always see what we think, our memories are unreliable, humans are generally hypothesis-con rmers not testers, intuition, faith. Good from answering questions that are unanswerable by science: moral questions, metaphysical questions (god?) What is science: the accumulation of knowledge via systematic observation and experimentation using the scienti c method, empirical. The acquisition of knowledge via objective and systematic collection of data: self correcting. A system of challenges by which scienti c claims can be veri ed or not supported: research and science is constantly challenging itself, control. The direct manipulation of a desired variable or.