PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychological Science, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Blackboard

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: dr.duell

Document Summary

Week 2: we"re only human syllabus now available on blackboard - research participation requirements also available (some changes made) supplemental instruction sessions held monday/wednesday 10:30-11:30. Humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Tendency to believe, after seeing an outcome, that we could have predicted it. We tend to believe we know more than we actually do. Tendency to perceive patterns in random events. People perceive patterns to make sense of their world. Even in random, unrelated data people find order because random sequences often do not look random. People trust their intuition more than they should because intuitive thinking is flawed. Leads us to often overestimate intuition, but scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Includes a passion to explore and understand the world without being misled or misleading others. More careful way of forming and evaluating knowledge rather than simply using intuition.