PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Thinking, Naturalistic Observation, Psychological Science

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Chapter 1 thinking criically with psychological science: Hindsight bias = the tendency to believe, ater learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (aka. Good idea are like good invenions; once created, they seem obvious. We tend to think we know more than we do = overconidence. * hindsight and overconidence lead us to overesimate our intuiion. [curiosity to explore/understand w/out being mislead] underlay science. W/ ++ ideas (i. e. esp), the proof is in the pudding does it work: moses used this (^) approach (empirical approach, put the prophet to the test. If the predicted event does not take place, then so much worse for the prophet : = let the facts speak for themselves. To go from fantasy reality, you must be: skepical, not cynical; open, not gullible. Also need humility (not opinions that mater but the truth) Science possible due to the following aitudes: curiosity, skepicism and humility.