PSYCH291 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Heart Rate, Construct Validity
20 Nov 2018
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You won"t have to: math, memorize specific details of experiments (its about the research process, not the content) (know details, not specifics) Animal learning research: can piper infer direction from eye gaze, two chairs. standing behind one. can piper infer eye gaze? no. she went there because he was there. Conclusions: psychological research is a gradual, incremental process, researchers (and consumers of research) should always be on the lookout for comfounds/alternative explanations! Research vs. intuition intuition can lead us astray. : inaccurate self-knowledge about how we effectively learn people use only 10% of their brains, people have different learning styles - these are proven false by research. There is no evidence that highlighting improves learning. How well can you draw a bike: you think you know what a bike looks like, but when you go to draw one - you have gaps in your knowledge. overconfidence bias, this is an illusion of knowledge.
