PSYC 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Skeptical Movement, Homicide, Pseudoscience
20 Sep 2016
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September 13th, 2016 stats lecture #1. Ex: thinking someone is mad at you when they don"t talk to you may be wrong! Ex: the guy who said vaccine"s cause autism wrong because people believed this measles are back. Have the mortalities are caused by thinking and behavior smoking, drunk driving etc. Understanding behaviour helps us make people healthy and safe. This is the benefit of figuring out scientific research. Frustration and aggression there is research we understand it police use this info for crowd control. Draw upon two things: intuition: using our own ideas to interpret the behaviour of others. Because of what we know about behaviour we can tell things about people by the way they act. Illusionary correlations: something"s are associated with others the occurrence of two events we link together. Tragic illusionary correlations: the association between homicide and poor mental health now we are afraid of people with mental health.
