PSYCH 303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Bias, Meta-Analysis, Psycinfo

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 303
• Professor: Colleen Seifert

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2: sources of information: why research is best and how to find it. Intuition: authority, compare all three of these to a superior source of evidence: empirical. Intuition can lead us to make less effective decisions: we are biased, biases of intuition fall into two categories, cognitive biases, motivational biases. Failing to think about what we cannot see: we often forget to seek out negative information, present/present bias is related to the need for comparison groups. Intuition is biased by motivation: sometimes we draw wrong conclusions because human cognition is imperfect, other times we do not want to challenge our preconceptions. Focusing on the evidence we like best: (cid:862)che(cid:396)(cid:396)y-pi(cid:272)k(cid:863) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:449)e take i(cid:374, people keep their beliefs in tact by selecting only the kinds of evidence they want to hear/see. Consulting scientific sources: psychological scientists usually publish their research in 3 kinds of sources, articles in scholarly journals, stand-alone chapters in books, full length scholarly books.