PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Oberg, Popular Psychology, Pseudoskepticism
22 Nov 2013
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Uncommon sense: popular psychology industry a sprawling network of everyday sources of information about human behaviour. Naive realism: seeing is believing is it: we trust our common sense because naive realism the belief that we see the world precisely as it is, yet appearances can be deceiving (ex. The earth seems flat: common sense tells us that our memories capture everything we"ve seen. Judgements on something we"ve just watched on a video: also a helpful tool for generating hypotheses. Psychological pseudoscience: imposters of science: pseudoscience set of claims that seems scientific but is not, metaphysical claims assertions about the world that are unfalsifiable, 7 deadly sins of pseudoscience, overuse of ad hoc immunizing hypotheses. Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis an escape hatch that defenders of a theory use to protect their theory from being falsified: lack of self-correction, exaggerated claims, overreliance on anecdotes i know a person who . Don"t tell us anything about cause and effect.
