PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Malingering, Headache, Scatter Plot

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

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Without research design, even intelligent and well-trained people can be fooled. Think back the prefrontal lobotomy (procedure that severs fibres connecting the frontal lobes of the brain from the underlying thalamus) to treat schizophrenia vs. modern medicine. System 1 thinking intuitive thinking) gut hunches a mode of thinking that does not require much mental effort. At this state, our brains are largely on autopilot. System 2 thinking analytical thinking is slow and reflective and requires mental effort. We use this whenever we try to reason through a problem, or figure out a complicated concept. Heuristic a mental shortcut or rule of thumb that helps us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world. E. g. (cid:449)he(cid:374) asked (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)it(cid:455) is (cid:271)igge(cid:396) a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e hea(cid:396)d of o(cid:374)e (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot the othe(cid:396) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e likel(cid:455) to assu(cid:373)e the o(cid:374)e (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e hea(cid:396)d of is (cid:271)igge(cid:396).