PSY 1101 Study Guide - Operational Definition, Statistical Significance, Atorvastatin
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It is the study of how we think, feel, and behave. Intuition can be misleading, lead to wrong information. Common sense is the result of learning and experience. Ex: 9/11 example, should have evacuated second building, we know the answer now. Tendency to overestimate how accurate our knowledge is. Ex: the experts: man will never walk on the moon. lee deforest. Tetlock: interviews people, sees how confident they are, then later sees if they were rights, most were not. Seeing the relationship between two variables when there is none. Ex: every time i think of anna, she calls. Cognitive effects: affects learning, pay attention to what supports our theory, disregard others, remember what goes with it. Ex: lottery numbers, each has an equal chance of winning: the scientific attitude (notes) Humility: you"re not the only mind out there, you are vulnerable to make errors, when doing research, you have to put your ego aside.
