PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hindsight Bias, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Psychological Science

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Christophe Andre Fortin

Document Summary

Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science. Intuition: an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it (aka. After we"ve learned a situations outcome, the outcome seems familiar and therefore obvious. Overconfidence we tend to think we know more than we do. In our natural eagerness to make sense of our world, we perceive patterns/order in random events when in reality they are just that random. The point to remember: hindsight bias, overconfidence and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition. (but science inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. The scientific attitude: curious, skeptical and humble (how do these three main components relate to critical thinking?) Curiosity: a passion to explore and understand without misleading or being mislead.