PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Thinking, Hindsight Bias, Scatter Plot

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Kristy

Document Summary

The need for psychological science: two phenomena- hindsight bias and judgmental overconfidence- illustrate why we cannot solely rely on intuition and common sense. The critical inquiry that flows from a scientific approach- supported by. Finding out that something has happened makes it seem inevitable. Out of sight, out of mind two sayings that mean the opposite, but when explained to different people they tend to think that it is common sense: judgemental overconfidence: humans share a tendency to be overly confident. We tend to think that we know more than we do. This contaminates our everyday judgement: the scientific attitude: underlying science is a passion to explore, to understand without misleading, or being mislead. In the scientific attitude, a prediction has to be confirmed. Someone with this attitude has to be sceptical, but open. He has to have certain about on humility since they will have to reject their own ideas.