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Psy100-OSU-Ch1
First Chapter / Psych 100 @ OSU / OSU Book
Question | Answer |
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What is critical thinking? | A set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open minded and careful fashion. |
CT Principle: Extraordinary Claims? | The more a claim contradicts what we already know, the more persuasive the evidence for this claim must be before we accept it. |
CT Principle: Falsifiability? | Claims must be capable of being disproved. |
CT Principle: Occam's Razor? | If two hypothesis explain something =ly well, we accept the simpler one. |
CT Principle: Replicability? | A finding must be capable of being duplicated by independent researchers following the same recipe. |
CT Principle: Ruling out rival hypoth. | Findings consistent with several hypothesis require addtl research to eliminate these hypotheses. |
Ct Principle: Correlation vs Causation | The fact that two things are associated with each other doesn't mean that one causes the other. |
risky prediction? | forcast that stands a good chance of being wrong. |
belief preservance? | The tendency to stick to our original beliefs, even as evidence contradicts them. |
Scientific theory | an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world |
scientific skepticism | approach of evaluating all claims with an Evaluating all claims with an open mind, but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them. |
oberg's dictum | Premise that we should keep our minds open, but not so open as to believe virtually everything. |
third variable problem | case in which a third variable causes the correlation between the other two variables |