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Thinking Critically With Psychological Science. Psychologists use the science of behavior and mental processes to better understand why people think, feel and act as they do.. After watching their favorite team lose a game, Emma and her friends commented to each other about how they had always kno
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1. Myers PSYCHOLOGY (9th Edition in Modules) Module 2
Thinking Critically with Psychological Science
2. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Psychologists use the science of behavior and mental processes to better understand why people think, feel and act as they do.
3. After watching their favorite team lose a game, Emma and her friends commented to each other about how they had always known the loss was inevitable. Psychologists call this: A. overconfidence.
B. the false consensus effect.
C. the hindsight bias.
D. an illusory correlation.
4. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Hindsight Bias
we tend to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it
the “I-knew-it-all-along” phenomenon “Anything seems commonplace, once explained.” Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes.
Two phenomena – hindsight bias and judgmental overconfidence – illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense.
“Anything seems commonplace, once explained.” Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes.
Two phenomena – hindsight bias and judgmental overconfidence – illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense.
5. Overconfidence Sometimes we think we know more than we actually know.