PSYO 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hindsight Bias, Pseudoscience, Nfkb1

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1011
• Professor: Leanne Stevens,Shelley Adamo,Kevin Duffy,Jennifer Stamp

Document Summary

> hindsight bias / tendency to overestimate our ability to predict an event after event outcome is known (p37) > scienti c thinking / process of using the cognitive skills required to generate, test & revise theories (p38) > scienti c method / process scientists use to conduct research, 5 basic steps - observation, prediction, testing, interpretation and communication (p40) > theory / set of related assumptions from which scientists can make testable predictions (p40) > hypothesis / speci c, informed and testable prediction (p40) > peer-review / practice of judging the scienti c merit w other scientists (p42) > replication / repetition of experiment to con rm results (p42) > pseudoscience / claims presented as scienti c that are not supporte by evidence obtained with the scienti c method (p43) > research design / how to conduct a scienti c study (p44) > population / entire group a researcher is interested in (p44)