Week 1

Question 1

What is pseudoscience?

Answer 1

Is beliefs or theories that doesn’t hold up to the scientific method.

Question 2

What is Recipe knowledge

Answer 2

Knowing how to use something without know how it works.

Question 3

Explain Bias Blind Spot

Answer 3

The notion that it is easy to see bias in other, but very difficult to see bias within your POV

Question 4

What Criteria is used to deem research as “expert”?

Answer 4

(A) can it be proven? - falsifiability
(B) can it make predictions?- probabilistic prediction
(C) was it peer reviewed?
(D) does it build on previous knowledge?

PPPP

• Proven
• Predictions
• Previous knowledge
• Peer Reviewed

Question 5

Why does Psychology suffer from a negative view?

Answer 5

• lack of exposure to psychologist outside of Freud and Skinner
• Back advice in self help
• clinical psychology has used ineffective treatment methods

Question 6

What is the difference between personal psychology and scientific psychology?

Answer 6

Personal psychology can be comforting to explain something after it happens, but Scientific psychology can make predictions about the future.

Question 7

What justifies Psychology as an independent discipline?

Answer 7

(1) psychology studies the whole range of human and non-human behavior to science techniques
(2) psychological applications are based in the scientific methods.

Question 8

Define Psychology

Answer 8

Data-based scientific study of behavior

Question 9

What is Science?

Answer 9

A way of thinking about and observing the universe that leads to a deeper understanding of how it works.

Question 10

Explain Systematic Empiricism

Answer 10

Scientist come to an understanding of the world by examining it through naturalistic observations , then propose theories based off those observations.

Question 11

Three features that define science

Answer 11

1. Systematic Empiricism
2. Production of Knowledge
3. Solvable Problems

Question 12

Production of Public Knowledge

Answer 12

Information must be submitted to the scientific community for criticism and testing to be considered scientific knowledge.

Question 13

Why is it important for theory to be biased on Solvable Problems?

Answer 13

A question must be able to be tested or proven by empirical techniques to be considered for scientific research

Question 14

What is the difference between psychology and folk wisdom?

Answer 14

Folk Wisdom is after the fact. Psychology uses empirical techniques that leads to the prediction of the future.

Question 15

What is Falsifiability Criterion?

Answer 15

Scientific theories must be able to be proved false.

Question 16

Hypothesis

Answer 16

A Hypothesis is a prediction that is based off a theory.

Question 17

Theory

Answer 17

an interrelated set of concepts used to explain is that his findings and make predictions about the results of future studies.

Question 18

Forer Effect

Answer 18

only see ways a theory in true, not looking for contradictions

Question 19

Self Validation

Answer 19

Looking for things that seen accurate and disregarding things that are contradictory

Question 20

confirmation bias

Answer 20

the tendency to find things that confirm your

POV/beliefs and ignore things that challenge you beliefs.

Question 21

What are the effects of the psychological monoculture?

Answer 21

when studies are being peer reviewed, peers are more likely to look more favorably upon work with theories they agree with. OR become more critical of POV that are different .

Question 22

What are the three ways that people gain knowledge ?

Answer 22

1. Intuition
2. Authority
3. Rational Induction

Question 23

What three features define science?

Answer 23

1. systematic empiricism
2. public knowledge
3. addresses solvable problems

Question 24

Peer review

Answer 24

Where other scientist review your data and comment on your work. If denied is recommended for more revisions. Peer reviewer’s cannot know you will be a part of your study.

Question 25

How do you reduce confirmation bias?

Answer 25

use familiar topics. things that are less abstract.

Question 26

What are the steps of the scientific method?

Answer 26

1. Ask a question
2. Background research
3. Make a hypotheses
4. Test hypotheses with experiment
5. Analyze data
6. Report briefings