PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hindsight Bias, Psychological Science, Critical Thinking

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

3 phenomena illustrate this, hindsight bias, judgmental overconfidence and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events. Hindsight bias: tendency to believe that after an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. Overconfidence: we think we know more than we do, more confident than correct. Patterns in random events don"t look random, patterns occur more often than people expect. All these things often lead us to overestimate our intuition. Humility being aware of our own vulnerability to error, openness to new perspectives. Critical thinking: thinking that does not blindly accept arguments/conclusions, rather assesses assumptions, hidden values, evidence + conclusions. Experimenter intends laboratory to be simplified reality, simulating/controls important features of everyday life. Experiments purpose is to test theoretical principles, not re-create exact behaviors in everyday life: resulting principles, not specific findings, help explain everyday behaviors. Culture: behaviors/ideas/attitudes/values/traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from generation to next.