PSYC 2250 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Psychology, Time, Internal Validity

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2250
• Professor: Steven Hladkyj

Document Summary

Tenacious idea are often a part of cultural folk wisdom . Intuition and personal experience knowledge without conscious effect or sensory processing (e. g. Personal experience: belief based on direct (often one-time ) experience. Seeing what we want to see ; believing what we want to believe b) A type of cause-effect error made by connecting two ( or more) rare but causally unrelated events together. It happen as we do not notice when we do not think: authority. Acceptance of idea because experts say it is so (e. g. news media, governments : a prior? method. E. g. philosophical arguments for the existence of god. Ideas evaluated on the basis of logic and scientific investigation. Scientists through empirical scientific method to develop knowledge. Philosophy that knowledge is based on structured, systematic and investigation. It can be either supported or refuted using empirical data: peer reviews by others before publishing. Ok to have opinions if they are presented as such.