PSYB01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Skeptical Movement, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Operational Definition
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Seven limitations of personal experience: confirmation bias and discounting problem: tend to seek out information that is consistent with our expectations and discount information that is inconsistent. The way a question is worded may also influence outcome. Inferences may be based on very little data: behaviour is not absolute: based on probability and a multiplicity of factors. Limited information thus can lead to incorrect assessments: e. g. Old way of raising dogs professor nagy"s puppy. Example: untitled by jose sicilia class predicted more biological images to be the untitled painting since more science background and a psychology class: baserates/comparisons often absent. Example: the dangers of bread: pleasant truths: tend to believe things that feel right , and make us feel good. Tend to believe both pleasant truths and pleasant falsehoods. Need to believe both pleasant and unpleasant truths: overreliance on intuition, authority figures.
