PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Prologue: behaviourism the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Also sometimes referred to as a retrieval practice effect or test-enhanced learning. xvii) sq3r a study method incorporating five steps: survey, question, read, retrieve, review. Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science: hindsight bias it is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (also known as the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. ) With 20/20 hindsight, everything seems obvious: overconfidence we tend to think we know more than we do. Once people know the answer to something hindsight bias makes it seem obvious so much so that the person becomes overconfident. Ex: robert vallone and his associates (1990) had students predict at the beginning of the school year whether they would drop a course, vote in an upcoming election, call their parents more than twice a month, and so forth.