PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hindsight Bias, Falsifiability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2360
• Professor: Harjinder Gill

Document Summary

Intuition or common sense: think something may be true, that is not actually true. Limitations of using intuition: people think they know things they don"t really know, hindsight bias. The tendency to think we could have predicted something we probably could not have predicted. Set of assumptions, rules and procedures scientists use to conduct research: empirical. Based on observation or measurement: objective unbiased or free from bias, replicable must be able to redo the experiment, hopefully get the same results, science must be based on what comes before it. Study human behaviour for two main reasons: want to understand it. Basic research commercial value: want to contribute to creating solutions to problems that face human beings. Applied research can see direct benefit of how it can help people. Specific method a researcher uses to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Three types: descriptive research, correlational research, experimental research. Is designed to answer questions about the current state of affairs.