PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Apophenia, Pareidolia, Pseudoscience
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Ch 2 introduction: greek philosopher socrates was worried that "writing" a new technology @ that time would diminish people"s ability to remember because they could rely on written records rather than committing information to memory. Apophenia & pareidolia: easy to see meaningful images in meaningless visual stimuli. Textbook & lecture notes: to identify pseudoscience vs science, avoid hindsight bias - we tend to believe after learning an outcome that we could have foreseen that outcome. Pseudoscience a body of knowledge, belief or practice that appears or made to appear scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. Tendency to perceive meaningful connections among unrelated phenomena. Overconfidence we tend to think we know more than we actually do, we are often more confident in our answers than we are correct. It"s grounded in objective, tangible evidence that can be observed time and time again, regardless of who is observing.
