PSY 102 Lecture 5: PSY102 Lecture 1-5 notes
11 Dec 2017
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Hypothesis: prediction follows from theory, based on theory. Doctors tend to look at symptoms for cancer and avoid other symptoms: overreliance on anecdotes: Need to have cause for things that are unexplainable. Belief perseverance-> favouring your beliefs even in the face of contradictory. Belief perseverance: (cid:498)tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence contradicts them(cid:499) Being aware of thinking challenges and adopting certain habits of mind (cid:523) (cid:498)critical(cid:499) and/or (cid:498)scientific(cid:499)(cid:524) The goal in hypothesis testing is not to (cid:498)prove(cid:499) anything. Instead-> (cid:498)suggests(cid:499). (cid:498)appears(cid:499), (cid:498)raises the possibility that. (cid:499) (cid:523)p. 20(cid:524) Pseudoscience: (cid:498)claims that seem scientific but aren"t? (cid:499) Diet, we don"t know if it works for other people or maybe just for that. You rely on single cases rather then abundance. B: their motives are complex: lack of self correction. They say that listening to mozart will make you smarter. Warning signs of pseudoscience: overuse of ad hoc immunizing hypothesis.
