PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Naturalistic Observation, National Technical Research Organisation, Atorvastatin
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Limits of intuition, intuition can be misleading, errors in judgement etc. Limits of common sense, result of experience, learning, acquired knowledge, etc. I knew it all along phenomenon: conclusion was so obvious we could have forecast it, human tendency to think positively, knowledge of facts. Overconfidence: tendency to over exaggerate our knowledge, more confident than is accurate notes. Illusory correlation: tendency to see relationships where there are none, disregard any event that is not in our beliefs, remember the events that support our beliefs better notes and book. Perceiving order in random events: uncertainty makes us nervous, we look for notes. Psych 1101 september 10, 2012: the scientific attitude notes+ objective 1 in chapter review(summary at the end) Any field that uses the scientific method is a science, psych included. Hypothesis is a tentative statement concerning the relationship between 2 variables. Rules to follow to accept the study as scientific:
