0.1-0.2 The Need for Psychological Science

Critical Thinking

"smart thinking"; thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions

Hindsight Bias/ "I knew it all along" Phenomenon

tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

Overconfidence

tendency to think we know more than we do

Richard Goranson Study

people predicted that it would take them seconds to unscramble simple words, but it took them an average of 3 minutes

Perceiving Order in Random Events

tendency to see patterns of unrelated or random occurrences, coming from our need to make sense out of the world

Scientific Attitude

curiosity, skepticism, humility