PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hindsight Bias, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Scientific Method
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Chapter 1: thinking critically with psychological science cannot rely solely on intuition sources of intuition overestimation tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we could have predicted it. I all along phenomenon people tend to think they know more than they do occurs in academic 13 social behavior. Tendency to perceive patterns in random events in random unrelated people often find order data because random sequences often don"t humans don"t like things to be random or ambiguous look random common sense. I l g d that test our ideas the data do not fit if ideas are modified ideas then our tested again making careful organized observations analyzing whether the data fit w our our ideas th e p. Theories sleep boosts memory to lead to about the world setting up situations the scientific method (part 2) self correcting the scientific method (part 3) confirm reject or revise iiiiea g p.