PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Bias, Psychological Science, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

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

Document Summary

Scope: huge ass field, every aspect of human life. Why do we need science? : limits of intuition. Cannot rely on intuition to understand the world around us. Intuition can lead us astray, gives wrong info. Cs does not generate new knowledge, new learning, new info. Cognitive bias overestimate how easy to predict the outcome of event or study w/o knowing all the facts. Research says when we don"t have all the facts, outcome is not predictable. Definition: overestimate our ability & how accurate our knowledge and opinions are. Confidence ^^^ vs how good you are ____: illusory correlation (ic) Definition: perceiving a relationship b/w two variable where there is no relationship ex\ bad luck. Ex\ leads us remember more the events that support them. And ignore the events that don"t support them. Ex\ pink shirt it rains: perceiving ordering in random events.