PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Tendency, Cognitive Bias, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Common sense does not generate new knowledge, learning and information. Hindsight bias (i knew it all along phenomenon) We tend to overestimate to predict outcome without all the information and facts. Research does not support when we don"t know all the facts we cannot predict the outcome. Overestimate our abilities and how accurate our knowledge and abilities are. Perceiving a relationship between 2 variable when they nothing between them. For example, 13 and black cat, every time it rains when you don"t want it too. Psycholoy all (cid:374)otes for (cid:373)idter(cid:373) 1: the scientific attitude to be better thinkers. Curiosity - be open minded - skepticism (ask questions, look for evidence). Operational definition: we must clearly state how we"re going to precisely measure our variable: replication test and retest and get similar results. If it doesn"t work go back to the start: generate or refine your theory.