Psychology: Chapter 1 Outline
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Chapter 1: Thinking Critically with Psychological Science The Need for Psychological Science Underestimate perils of intuition Hindsight bias Finding that something has happened makes it seem inevitable Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.) Errors in recollections and explanations show why we need psychological research Just asking people how and why they felt/acted can be misleading-not because common sense is usually wrong, but b/c it more easily described what has happened than what will happen It has been observed in various countries among both children and adults Would be surprising if many of psych?s findings had not been foreseen b/c we all watch behavior
