[PSY 101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)
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Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science. 1. 1 the need for psychological science. Our thinking, memory, and attitudes operate on two levels conscious and unconscious with the larger part operating automatically. Three phenomena hindsight bias, judgmental overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Hindsight bias the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; know was the i-knew-it-all-along-phenomenon . Common sense more easily describes what has happened than what will happen. Good ideas are like good invents; once created, they seem obvious. Humans tend to think we know more than we do. 1. 1. 3 perceiving order in random events. In actual random sequences, patterns and streaks occur more often than people expect. Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition. 1. 1. 4 the scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble.
