PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Participant Observation, Theory-Theory, Colonoscopy
25 Sep 2016
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Isn"t psychology just common sense: the passage of time varies as a function of velocity, empty space has structure, humans share a common ancestor with the banana, don"t look at what you want to see. 5) there are ideal amounts of stress: human mistake is predictable and systematic rational market theory. Reasoning - a set of processes that construct and evaluate implications among sets of propositions. Con rmation bias - the tendency to interpret new evidence as con rmation of one"s existing beliefs or theories. Are humans reasonable? not particularly one must be skeptical of intuitions, and essentially of all claims, including those of authorities . Science is a systematic process of acquiring knowledge about the world that is constrained by reason and evidence. Science is an empirical process, and the scienti c method is the set of rules for collecting and evaluating data. Karl popper"s example: all swans are white it only takes 1 non-white swan to falsify that.
