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Psychology .- .ANS✓✓-the .scientific .study .of .behavior .and .mental .processes
Misconceptions .about .psychology .- .ANS✓✓-Common .sense
Intuition .is .often .wrong
Correlation .does .mean .causation
confirmation .bias .- .ANS✓✓-
a .tendency .to .search .for .information .that .supports .our .preconceptions .and .to .i
gnore .or .distort .contradictory .evidence
belief .perseverance .- .ANS✓✓-
tendency .to .stick .to .our .initial .beliefs .even .when .evidence .contradicts .them
availability .heuristic .- .ANS✓✓-
making .a .decision .based .on .the .answer .that .most .easily .comes .to .mind
extraordinary .claims .- .ANS✓✓-require .extraordinary .evidence
Replicability .- .ANS✓✓-
research .that .can .be .repeated, .and .thus .verified, .by .other .researchers .later
Ruling .out .rival .hypotheses .- .ANS✓✓-
Have .important .alternate .explanations .for .the .finding .been .considered?
parsimony .- .ANS✓✓-Seeking .out .the .simplest .answer
Falsifiability .- .ANS✓✓-
if .we .claim .something .is .scientifically .true, .we .must .be .able .to .specify .what .evi
dence .it .would .take .to .prove .it .wrong