PSYC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Summary: Hindsight Bias, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Psychological Science
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Psychology is the scientific study of the mind, brain, behavior. Problems with relying on common sense and intuition. Humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overvalue our intuition. Scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Critical thinking refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge. Critical thinking helps develop more effective and accurate ways to figure out what than simply using intuition makes people do, think, and feel the things they do. Scientific method is the process of testing ideas about the world by. Setting up situations that test our ideas. If the data do not fit our ideas, then ideas are modified and tested again. Analyzing whether the data fit with our ideas. Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. Testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
