PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Encoding Specificity Principle, Relative Risk, Microexpression
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He proved this by giving horoscopes to each individual in a college class. Then after reading the horoscope, he asked who the horoscope applied to. After several students raised their hand, he asked people to pass the horoscopes around and it turns out, all of the horoscopes were the same. They figured that their observation was not objective and cannot measure through electrochemical impulses. They did not do a double-blind study which was needed. Dm5: what kinds of group biases have parallels with individual biases, what are group polarization effects, pushed out to the extremes. Do we always become more accurate as we learn more information: over-estimating the accuracy of one"s judgments, in other words, the discrepancy between true accuracy and self-estimated accuracy of one"s judgments. Encourage people to see that confirming questions are not socially acceptable (e. g. , indicative of bias: describe the major behavioral traps , time delay traps: short-term gratification leads to long-term consequences.
