PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confounding, Central Tendency, Random Assignment

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

Document Summary

Chapter 1- thinking critically with psychological science: the need for psychological science. A. 1- limits of intuition (instinct can be wrong or misleading) Hindsight bias: we have a tendency to believe that once we know the conclusion we could have predicted it (we knew it all along phenomenon). A. 3- overconfidence: we tend to be more sure of knowledge than what we know. A. 4- illusory correlation: we tend to see a relationship between two variables when there is none. They affect how we think, feel, and behave. We disregard any information that does not support the belief. A. 5- perceiving order in random events: we are uncomfortable with uncertainty so we come up with rules to make us certain. Curiosity: there is no science without curiosity. Open-mindedness: to be smart and to think, you must be open to different and new ideas that are a different perspective from your own. Skepticism: always ask questions and ask for evidence.