PSYC2241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Type I And Type Ii Errors, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Cognitive Load
24 Nov 2017
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October 5: biases and judgment -- how we get things wrong. William james: the will to believe -- discovery vs. We must know the truth and we must avoid error -- two separable laws, not two ways of stating identical commandment. We may regard chase for truth as paramount and avoidance of error as secondary; or treat avoidance of error as more imperative and let truth take its chance. Skepticism: err on side of not believing anything that is false and thus missing certain truths. Discover: err on side of believing everything that is true even if it means believing some things that are false are true. Similar to type i and type ii error in statistics. Mammograms, for instance, have high cases of false positives but want. Construal theory to minimize cases of false negatives. To know how a situation will affect someone, we need to know how the situation is perceived or experienced by that person.
