PSY111 Week 11 Content

What are 3 of the 6 criticisms of scientific bias mentioned in the lecture and reading?

• It is just common sense

• It cannot yield meaningful generalisations

• It is full of too much jargon

• Everyone thinks they are an expert

• It is not useful to society

Representativeness Heuristic is when we expect a sample from a random population to look random.

• True

• False

What is a potential source of public scepticism mentioned in the reading?

• Fake News and Mainstream Media

• Underpaying Psychiatrists

• Psychology's failure to police itself

• The patriarchy

Familiarity Heuristic/bias is when things we are familiar with seem...

• Safe

• Aesthetically pleasing

• Likeable

• True

What are some ways psychology has impacted society?

• It hasn't, it just studies it

• Improved police line-ups and eyewitness interviewing

• We can predict people's actions with 100% accuracy

Confirmation bias (on an individual level) tends to pay attention to...

• Information that is consistent with our existing beliefs

• Stimuli that is certain or confirmed by others

• Information that doesn't fit our beliefs

• Information that is absolute

“I knew it all along” is an example statement of what kind of heuristic or bias?

• Confirmation Bias

• Representativeness Heuristic

• Familiarity Heuristic

• Hindsight Bias

The 'Cognitive Miser' concept is about greedy reductionism

• True

• False

In hindsight bias, we are motivated to see the world as chaotic and unpredictable

• True

• False

Confirmation Bias has 2 levels of meaning

• True

• False