PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mary Whiton Calkins, Humanistic Psychology, Edward B. Titchener
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Psychological science is born: wilhelm wundt was seeking to measure atoms of the mind , the fastest and simplest mental processes. 3 phenomena, hindsight bias, judgmental overconfidence and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events, illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Psychological research has overturned popular ideas that dreams predict the future, and most of us only use 10% of our brain. Overconfidence: we think we know more than we do, tend to be more confident than correct, knowing the answers tends to make us overconfident. Perceiving order in random events: we are prone to perceive patterns, random sequences often don"t look random. But scientific inquiry can help us analyze reality from illusion. 2-3 can laboratory experiments illuminate everyday life: a lab experiment lets psychologists recreate psychological forces under controlled conditions, an experiments purpose is not to recreate the exact behaviors of everyday life but to test theoretical principles (mook)