PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Philip E. Tetlock, James Randi, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100A
• Professor: Martin Sherer Smith

Document Summary

Intuition: an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or though: contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning, not error free. Overcon dence: we tend to think we know more than we actually do: a problem in eyewitness testimony & on exams, performance: we are much to certain in our judgements, overestimate our performance, rate of work, skills. Perceiving order in random events: our natural eagerness attempts to make sense of the world around us: scienti c inquiry helps to sift reality from illusion. Scienti c attitude: requires curiosity, skepticism & humility: curious skepticism: approaching the world"s behaviour being skeptical but not cynical, and open but not gullible. Persistently asking what do you mean? & how do you know? . Sceptical testing can reveal which ideas match the facts: humility: awareness of our own vulnerability to error, and being open to surprises & new perspectives, critical thinking: thinking that does not blindly accept argument & conclusions.