PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Critical Inquiry, Psychological Science

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science. The need for psychological science: our thinking, memory, and attitudes operate on 2 levels conscious and unconscious. Hindsight bias: hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, why we need psychological research, good ideas are like good inventions; once created, they seem obvious. Overconfidence: we tend to think we know more than we do, university of pennsylvania psychologist collected more than 27, 000 expert predictions of world events they were right less than 40% of the time. Even those who were wrong maintained confidence by saying that they were almost right . But scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. The scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble: underlying all science is, first, a hard-headed curiosity, a passion to explore and understand without misleading or being misled.