PSYC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Availability Heuristic, Validity, Inductive Reasoning
29 Jan 2017
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Psyc 201 - chapter 1: psychology & science: psychology is a science, just like any other science, ways of knowing: (1) non-empirical methods: not based on experience (i) authority: based on someone else"s knowledge. May be biased by a particular point of view (there is no one grand uni ed theory) (i. e. expertise heuristic) (ii) logic: formal rules of correct & incorrect reasoning. Critical in drawing conclusions about the world. Just because something is logically valid doesn"t make it true (2) empirical methods: based on experience/observation/measurement (i) intuition: a way of knowing based on spontaneous, instinctive perception, rather than on logic or reasoning. (ex. availability heuristic: tendency to judge the probability of an event, given how easily it is to think of) Counterintuitive: something that goes against common sense: much of scienti c results are counterintuitive, but it ultimately rests on a certain kind of common sense (ii) science: a way of obtaining knowledge by objective observations.
