PSYCH 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Bias, Falsifiability, Review Article
3 Feb 2018
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Why research is best and how to find it. Comparison group - enables us to compare what would happen both w/ and w/out the thing we"re interested in. Negative effect = the treatment is worse than no treatment. Positive effect = the treatment is better than no treatment. Too much goes on in everyday life. Confounds - alternative explanations for an outcome. Confederate - an actor playing a specific role for the experimenter. Practicing aggression teaches ppl how to be aggressive, makes them angrier. Probabilistic - the findings aren"t expected to explain all cases all of the time. Research suggests that there is a strong probability that your honda will be reliable, but it does not guarantee it. Intuition is biased bc the human mind works imperfectly. When we accept a conclusion just bc it makes sense" = cognitive bias. Like freud"s idea that bottling up anger was no good. Common antibiotics can cure ulcers, not antacids.
