[Sociology 2206A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (65 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: Kristin Lozanski

Document Summary

Acquired through systematic collection and analysis of data. Holds up to debate and critique by other experts. We tend to think that we make decisions and consider information based on: Confirmation bias: you pay attention to things that confirm your opinions and disregard those that challenge them. Affect heuristic: you do not analysis situates with complex through, but respond to an initial impress of good and bad. Self-serving bias: you attribute your successes to your personal efforts and excuse your failures, rather than attributing both to some combination of yourself and your social environment. Availability heuristic: you will believe something to be true if you can think of one example, and less likely to believe it if it"s a new idea. Hindsight bias: after learning something, you assume you always knew it. A tested explanation of a phenomenon that is observed with some regularity. Procedural rationale for collecting and analyzing data. How can we know what we know? .