PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Illusory Correlation, Physical Therapy, Psy
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Psychology: scientific study of how we feel, think and behave. Scope: majority people think physiotherapy is what psychologists do but it"s only minor, psychologists hired to make websites (microsoft, hired to investigate cause of crash, study criminal mind. Why: a. 1 limits of intuition, intuition can"t generate scientific knowledge, can be misleading, a. 2 limits of common sense: common sense is the result of experience, having gone through something, comes from knowledge, it does not generate new knowledge, hindsight bias (i knew it all along phenomenon) Once event happens, outcome is clear (know details, etc. ) Have tendency to think we can easily predict outcome. If we know outcome we think outcome is obvious. If outcome not known predicting outcome is not obvious: a. Remember better anything that supports illusory correlation: a. 5 perceiving order in random events: uncomfortable with uncertainty so we always try to find patterns. Try to make world more orderly: look for patterns that don"t exist.
