By: Kelsey Russell & Rachel Holmes
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence
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People tend to be more confident then correct that’s why we rely
more on Science.
Scientific Attitude
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When you tell people that something is true, yet tell another group
of people the opposite the sides will see the logic in both thinking
that their side is true.
According to Historians these three attitudes – curiosity,
skepticism, and humility, makes modern science possible.
Critical Thinking
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This ties into scientific attitude because critical thinking is like
curiosity, you ask a lot of questions to get information to prove
your results
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Psychologist answer question mostly by the reasoning of testing the
theory and if the results fail then the theory changed or rejected.
Scientific Method:
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Description:
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The starting point of any science is description.
In everyday life all of us observe and describe other people. Often drawing
conclusions about why they behave as they do.
Correlation:
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In everyday conversation we make our theory by our hunch and in science the
theory is linked with observations.
By linking facts and bridging them to deeper principles a theory offers a useful
summary. So there for as we connect the dots a coherent picture emerges.
Surveys and naturalistic observations often shows us that one trait or behavior is
related to another. In other words we say that the two correlate. Which helps us
figure how closely two things vary together. Which tells us how well either one
predicts the other.
Experimentation:
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Is a way in which you experiment using more than two factors and you put in all the
factors in that relate to theory.
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Statistics are tools that help us see and interpret
what the unaided eye might miss.
Describing Data
How you put your data together (Example: graph, table,
written)
 Having your data on a graph helps you clearly see the
variation and range.
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Making Inferences
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In deciding when it is safe to generalize from a sample we
should keep 3 principles in mind
 Representative samples are better that biased samples
 Less variable observation are more reliable that those that are
more variable.
 More cases are better than fewer
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To sum up this unit, it is basically saying to us
that you need to test your theory over and
over, and get plenty of evidence, also ask a lot
of questions, and think scientifically without a
biased opinion.
Don’t be over confident because it will lead to a
wrong answer because you have a “big head”
and you will think that you are right and you
will not test your theory enough to prove it
thoroughly.