PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Somatic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Hindsight bias: i knew it all along . Give half the people a theory and give the other half of people the other theory and theory and they will quickly find an excuse for them. Good ideas in psychology are usually weird and nice we encounter them we wonder why we didn"t think of this ourselves it seemed obvious. Overconfidence: we humans tend to think we know more then we do. Perceiving order in random events: wallace stevens calls it the. Marie- adams won the lottery twice it was just random . The scientific attitude: curious, skeptical and humble. Curiosity: a passion to explore and understand without misleading or being mislead. Skeptical: to believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting: . Humility: an awareness of our own vulnerability to error and openness to surprises and new perspectives. Examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. Theory: an explanation using a set of principles, mere hunch .