PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Psy, Critical Thinking
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Chapter 1: thinking critically with psychological science: overview. Critical thinking refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge than simply using intuition. In addition to the scientific method, critical thinking helps develop more effective and accurate ways to figure out what makes up a person. Brain is designed for reproducing and surviving not the best tool to see reality: critical thinking errors. Hindsight bias after learning the results, you believe you could have predicted the same outcome. Error 1: performance to certain, overestimate our skills and rate of work. Error 2: accuracy much more certain than accurate, a problem with court testimonies and tests. Perceiving order in random events thinking you can make a prediction from a random series, we try and make sense out of particular patters. Analyzing information to decide if it makes sense rather than simply accepting it. Determine if there are any other possible explanations.
