critical thinking november

claims

assertions that an individual asserts to be true

ideomotor effect

subtle motions that are unconscious (ouji board)

science

process for investigating natural world testing of hypothesis

independent variable

has impact on dependent variable (time spent studying)

dependent variable

trying to understand (test score)

RCT

randomly assign, control/experimental group, treatment, compare

comparative analysis

different subject same time

correlation coefficient

strengths of association -1 to 1

regression analysis

estimate relationship between independent and dependent variable

regression

can imply cause and effect

correlation implies causation bias(president death curse)

reverse causality, extraneous confounding variable, chance, what you see is all there bias

multiple regression analysis

control for independent variables

Chance

superstition, need for control

Lottery Fallacy

Mae improbable a correlation more probable a cause

medium

person contact dead through living

Ask yourself with psych

ask for specifics, proof prediction was made prior, track history of hits and misses

abuses correlation implies causation bias

cigarette companies

crime pysics

solve crimes and find missing persons vague or made after the fact

pareidolia

see a pattern that does not exist in a stimulus-seeing faces

apophenia

hear pattern of sounds that does not exist- stairway to heaven- ghost hunters EVP

Inattentional Blindness

failure to perceive a stimulus that is in plain sight due to lack of attention

change blindness

inablity to notice change

cryptozoology

animals who existence yet to be proven

ESP

receive info by means other than known senses

eyewitness testimony

misidentification errors of perception- expectation bias, sleepiness, bad view