PSYCH 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confirmation Bias, Doomsday Cult, Facilitated Communication
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Psychological science: the study of mind, brain, and behavior. Critical thinking: systematically evaluating in formation to reach reasonable conclusion. Mozart effect: babies listening to cd players leads to higher iq scores (fake) Critical thinking: systematically evaluating information to reach conclusions supported by evidence. Perceived as meaningfully related; lucky charm outcome. Co-incidence: surprising co-occurrence of events that we perceive as meaningfully related; we get luck; ex. rituals, superstition. Selective recall: tendency to remember only facts or events that are unusual, personally enhancing, or fit a particular narrative ex. Women talk a lot ; you remember your women friends who talk a lot but not the ones who talk a little. Confirmation bias: tendency to attend to and accept facts that fit our pre-existing beliefs and dismiss anything that does not ex. Vaccines cause autism: my son got a vaccine and has autism . Affect bias: tendency to make judgments based off emotion, with little input from deliberative reasoning ex.
