PSY 1101 Study Guide - Motor Neuron, Axon Hillock, Extracellular Fluid

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: A L L

Document Summary

Chapter 1 - thinking critically with psychological science. The study of cognitive processes, emotional processes, motivational processes and behaviours. A. 2 limits of common sense (common sense is the result of experience and learning. Hindsight bias - i knew it all along phenomenon. Once we know everything we need to know about something, we feel we can say i told you so. A. 3 overconfidence - overestimate how accurate our knowledge is. A. 4 illusory correlation - seeing a relationship between two variables when no relationship exists. The fact that we believe this belief means we will give more attention to anything that supports our belief. Anything that opposes our belief we will ignore and disregard. A. 5 perceiving order in random events - as human beings, we are uncomfortable with uncertainty. Therefore, we tend to look for explanations: the scientific attitude. C. 3 hypothesis testing - test idea from theory.