[PSYCH 100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (86 pages long!)

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Limits of common sense: the need for psychological science: overconfidence. Def: people tend to be more confident than correct we think we know more than we really do know. Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. (lord kelvin, british mathematician/physicist 1895) There is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home. (k. olson, president of digital electronics 1977) Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will be a reality in 10 years. (a. lewyth, vacuum cleaner manufacturer 1955: hindsight bias. Def: after you know the outcome of an event, you end to believe you would have predicted it. Research suggests that people with high self-esteem are more susceptible to flattery than those with low self-esteem . There is reinforcement for those with high self-esteem and have confident, rather than those with low self-esteem, who are more cynical. Research suggests that people with low self-esteem are more susceptible to flattery than those with high self-esteem.