PSY 2120 - Ch. 1

E.C - On the first day of classes, I asked each person a question out of a list. One of those questions was "What's your favorite tradition or holiday?". All those who got that question answered...

Christmas

Match the way of knowing with what it is based on:

Empiricism - Observation, Rationalism - Reasoning, Intuition - Feelings

An example of pseudoscience is:

astrology

Which of these concepts describes a tendency to focus on the evidence that seems to prove our already held beliefs while discounting evidence that would disprove our own beliefs?

confirmation bias

The clinical practice of psychology does NOT include...

creating and evaluating advertisements, prescribing psychotropic medications

________ questions are questions that can be answered through systematic observation.

empirical

A ________ is a ________ in ________ and ________ our ________.

heuristic, mental shortcut, forming, maintaining, beliefs

Empiricism means:

learning based on observation

Philosophers are known to use ________ to answer questions about the world.

logic

What are the goals of science?

to explain, to predict, to describe

Accepting that there are many things that we simply do not know is called...

tolerance for uncertainty