PSYC 2360 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Notes
29 Jan 2012
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Chapter 1 introduction to research y purpose of behavioural research is to increase our understanding of behaviour and to provide methods for improving the quality of our lives. Chapter 1 introduction to research: ex. Experiment is completed, results are released and you believe you would have been able to predict the results. Hindsight bias: the tendency to think that we could have predicted something that we probably could not have predicted. Intuition is useful for getting ideas but they are not infallible y y theories about how they make judgments do not always correspond to how we actually make them. Facts: objective statements determined to be accurate through empirical study. Distinguishing between facts and values y distinction is not always clear cut y because there is more than one way to interpret data, sometimes statements made by scientists are later proved incorrect: very difficult to interpret data.
