PSYB45H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psycinfo, Internal Consistency, Convenience Sampling
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When you rely on intuition you accept unquestioningly what your own personal judgement or a single story about one person"s experience tells you. Involves finding an explanation for our behaviours or behaviors of others. Used to explain intriguing events that you observe, as in the case of concluding that adoption increases chances of conception. Illusory correlation: occurs when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together. Likely to occur when we are highly motivated to believe the causal relationship. A scientific approach requires more evidence before conclusions can be drawn. The scientific approach rejects the notion that one can accept on faith the statements of any authority. Scientific approach: to acquiring knowledge recognizes that both intuition and author can be sources of ideas about behaviour. Scientific skepticism: means that the ideas must be evaluated on the basis of careful logic and results from scientific investigations. Empiricism: the idea that knowledge is based on observations.
