PSY 1101 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - Thinking Critically with Psychological Science

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Chapter 1 thinking critically with psychological science. can lead us to the wrong info. hindsight bias: i knew it all along phenomenon. our tendency to overestimate how accurate our knowledge is. Tetlock: research who studies experts and their research. see a relationship between 2 or more variables when there is no relation. have cognitive effects y going to pay more attention to what supports your illusions and pay less attention to what doesn t y going to remember what supports it more then what doesn t. we create meaning and order where there is none: scientific attitude. scepticism: y don t accept everything at face value y ask for evidence y analyze evidence. awareness off one s own biases and assumptions. cautiousness y we don t prove or disprove y we support y probability: the scientific method. observation theory y organize, summarize, integrate y theory is not fact.