PSYCH 1115-Week3

Question 1

3 common flaws in Common Sense?

Answer 1

1. OVERCONFIDENCE:
2. HINDSIGHT BIAS:
3. PERCEIVING ORDER IN RANDOM EVENTS:

See Week 1 cards for more (PSYCH 1215)

Question 2

What is Post-Truth?

Answer 2

in modern culture, whereby ppl’s emotions and personal beliefs often override their acceptance of objective facts

This is strengthened by 4 things:
1. False News (spreads faster, farther, and deeper than truth)
2. Repetition (hearing news multiple times)
3. Powerful Examples (seeing vivid, graphic, gory, detailed pictures of events, overestimating our belief that it will happen to us)
4. Like-minded with Like-minded: birds of a feather flock together and strengthen their opinions together by only socialising with like-minded ppl

Question 3

the Mean?
the Median?
the Mode?
the Range?
the Standard Deviation?
the Normal Curve?

Answer 3

1. The mean is the math ‘average’ of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the # of scores.
2. the median is the middle score in a distribution. Half above and half below.
3. The mode is the most frequently occurring score in a distribution
4. The range of scores is the gap between the lowest and the highest
5. The standard deviation is a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score. How consistent something is.
6. the normal curve is a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data (most scores fall near the mean. aka normal distribution