CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Falsifiability, Full Moon, List Of Toho Alien Races
12 Oct 2017
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If brain damaged, you will suffer deficits: we use all of our brains, evolution wouldn"t waste energy building vast parts you don"t use, why, availability cascade, wishful thinking. It"s not real: several cognitive biases that make us believe it"s real, confirmation bias, neglect of negative results, wishful thinking. Listening to mozart makes babies smarter: believed because we hope it"s true, effect is small, short term, and only based on arousal, same effect from hearing scary passage from stephen king book. If biased, they would underpredict later success for certain groups and overpredict for others: panels of scientists concluded that they are not biased. Item analysis used to identify bad test questions. Happiness: money and happiness, money correlated with happiness until you"re making around 75k per year. Ted talk notes: prefrontal cortex allows us to experience simulations, traumatic events lose its effect after 3 months.
