PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Feynman, Confirmation Bias
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How we think (cognitive), feel (emotional), and act (behavioural) goals: Describe explain predict control methods: We cannot know what causes what, without carefully controlled studies. Personal experience does not = valid evidence. Intuition: effortless, immediate, automatic feeling/thought, contrasted w/ explicit, conscious reasoning vast intuitive mind, but w/ faults we can correct by scientific method. Overestimate lie detection, eyewitness recollection, interviewee assessments, risk predictions. Scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble: curious, skeptical, humble: Passion to explore & understand w/out misleading or being misled. Awareness of vulnerability to error, openness to new perspectives. Critical thinking: thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions, rather examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, assesses conclusions: purpose: Clear the coloured lenses of our biases, identify effective policies: how: look at evidence, recognize multiple perspectives, learn from new sources. Scientific method: self-correcting process for evaluating ideas w/ observation and analysis.
