PSYB01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Skeptical Movement, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Scientific Method
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Understanding research methods can help you become a informed consumer. Instead of using scientific approach, many people rely on intuition and authority as ways of knowing. When you rely on intuition you accept unquestioningly what your personal judgment as or single story about one person experience tells you about the world. It takes many forms: involves finding an explanation for our behavior or for the behaviors of others , it also explains intriguing events that you observe, A problem with intuition is that many cognitive and motivational biases affect our perception and so we are likely to draw erroneous conclusions about cause and effect. Most likely believing that is because of a cognitive bias called illusory correlation that occurs when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together. Aristotle was concerned with the factors associated with persuasion or attitude change.
