PSY 2012- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
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Individual differences people differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior. helps to explain why each person responds in different ways to the same objective situation ex. Theory an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world. Scientists understand that they are biased and take precautions not to influence the outcomes of their experiments. Pseudoscience is a set of claims that seems scientific but isn"t. Skepticism is evaluating all claims with an open mind but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them. Critical thinking is a set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and careful fashion. Emotional reasoning fallacy the error of using our emotions as guides for evaluting the validity of a claim. Bandwagon fallacy the error of assuming that a claim is correct just because many people believe it. Not me fallacy the error of believing that we"re immune from errors in thinking that afflict other people.