PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hindsight Bias, Psychological Science, Scientific Method

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science. The need for psychological science: our thinking, memory, and attitudes operate on 2 levels, conscious and unconscious, with the larger part operating automatically (autopilot). (intuitive mind) Intuition is important, but we often underestimated its perils (people will overestimate their lie detection accuracy, their eyewitness recollections, their interviewee assessments, their risk predictions, and their stock-picking talents). Just asking people how and why they felt or acted as they did can sometimes be misleading not because common sense is usually wrong, but because common sense more easily describes what has happened than what will happen. But scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Critical thinking: the scientific attitude prepares us to think smarter, critical thinking, critical thinking thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.