Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
9 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Naive realism |
Assumption we see the world as it really is |
|
|
Belief Perseverance |
Despite contradicting evidence maintaining a belief |
|
|
Illusory correlation |
Looks like there's a relationship when there is not - phone always rings when I'm in the shower! |
|
|
Patternicity |
Perceiving meaningful images in meaningless visual stimuli. |
|
|
Confirmation Bias |
Tendency to search for things that confirm your belief |
|
|
Pseudoscience |
Claims seem scientific but are not. Lacks safeguards against confirmation, bias and belief perseverance |
|
|
6 principals of critical thinking! |
1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence 2. Falsability - capable of being disproved 3. Occam's Razor - if two explanations account equally well for an observation we should select the simpler one 4. Replicability - consistent 5.Ruling out hypothesis -consider alternate explanations 6. Coorilation not causation - you can't determine cause and effect |
|
|
7 sins of pseudoscience |
1. Hypothesis - excuse to protect theory against falsification *magic water can't be tested 2. Lack of self correlation - incorrect claims don't leave despite counter evidence 3. Exaggerated claims - breakthrough! Proven! 4. Anecdotes - personal experiences 5. Evasion of peer reviews -reluctance to be evaluated 6. No connectivity - doesn't build on previous knowledge 7. Psychobabble - la guage sounds scientific 😜 |
|
|
Hindsite bias |
Looking back and only picking out what confirms your beliefs - yea I said he had bad vibes! (About murderer 😑) |
