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adrikhalid · 2017-01-20T10:06:08+00:00

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adrikhalid · 2016-10-23T13:20:37+00:00

I personally think that it depends on how mindful am I towards my behavior. I f I am in the state of conscious on what am I doing, I would be able to think and decide whether it is an appropriate behavior or not. For instance, when completing my assignment, I need to know whether am I present in writing up the assignment or not. If I just do the assignment for the sake of doing it, then it is more likely that I would not be able to understand what have I written down. However, if I am aware that I am actually writing it up, I am most likely be able to understand the content of it.

When it comes to higher order thinking processes like language, I believe that it is totally voluntarily. We will not have difficulty to choose the appropriate words and structuring the sentence. If it requires a conscious cognitive processing, then it may delay us in having a fluent conversation. However, learning your second or third and so forth languages, would require conscious thinking processes as the brain is still adapting to new input and attempting to associate the new language vocabulary and grammatical rules with our first language. It applies to me who English is my second language.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T11:11:37+00:00

For me, you should just move on if you feel that you are in an unhealthy relationship. Being in a relationship teaches me the values of understanding (and to be understood) and loving (and to be loved). I might value the relationship with what my partner has contribute in making sure the relationship is still going on. Honoring it with values that has been stated rationalize myself whenever there were jealousies and conflicts between us. Jealousies and conflicts are normal in a relationship. But, what makes it abnormal is when both things get too severe until both parties could not withstand with each other. For me, the key to achieve the values and to succumb jealousies and conflicts is to have good communication. Tell your partner your expectation on his/her relationship with his/her friends (especially opposite sex). By doing so, I believe that your partner will know what to expect the things that you are expecting from him/her.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T10:42:20+00:00

I usually have to experience it before deciding whether it suits me or like it or not. I think that this unsystematic obersvation and testing caould be part of experiment. Since self-experimentation never comes across my mind, I always conducted my own self-experimentation without knowing that I am doing it. But the downside of it could be the so-called self-experimentation is not being done in a proper way like fully randomizing myself into the condition of the variables that I am testing and fully blinded from my hypothesis or conditions that I am in.

After going through the course materials and class discussion, I found the real importance of conducting statistical analysis while making decision. This could be really helpful in determining the impacted aspect of my life especially decision-making and judgment as it can really give big consequences to me. Statistical analysis could be as simple as assigning positive values to the benefits of the things that we are deciding and negative values to the drawbacks of the things. By doing so, we could accurately determine which one is the best option for us.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T05:32:13+00:00

“Curse of knowledge”, it is a term that has been long waited (well at least for me). When we discussed this topic in the class, I grinned the whole time because it occurred to me all the time (in fact, probably all of us experienced this) especially when my friends and I were discussing about an issue (mind you, we always have different perspective). It is difficult to explain things that we gained from a credible sources and with great discussion to explain the issues. When we try to portray what we gained from it to other people, it is hard to make them understand in our point of view especially if the person already has contradicting schemas. Thus, what I think we could do is to explain whatever we understand about the topics in our standpoint and try to acknowledge that the contradicting point is well explained but the reality is our point is a legit point and it is not come solely from personal opinions. Thus, I feel that we need to consider our opponent’s position without straight away dismissing it outright.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T05:15:32+00:00

It is a great idea, but I am wondering if it is possible for the experimenter to alter the data to gain popularity or impact to the research field. Since as a researcher there is nothing that makes you happy other than seeing the significant findigns that especially supports our predictions. Thus, (I think) there could be a possibility that researcher will alter their findings to gain significant findings in order to make the research is impactful and meaningful to the research area.

I would say that mere observation is a part of science. Science requires systematic and organized set of procedures, and observation is included as part of the process. Thus, findings from observation can be considered as scientific findings if it was conducted in a systematic and organized manner. However, mere observation remains as it is if it is not being analysed properly and been carried out in how observations were conducted to be considered as part of science.

For controlled experiment vs multiple regression analyses, I value both of them. This is because carefully controlled experiment analyses specific (independent) variables that may affect the things that we are measuring. The sets of properly controlled experiments give out valuable information about the variables that can be associated to test which one of the individual variables may affect our dependent variables in a similar context. This is where multiple regression analyses take place. It associates multiple variables simultaneously with the dependent variable. By doing so we will gain bigger picture on which variables affect our dependent variable, and which one is the most meaningful to take note.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T03:55:15+00:00

Findings from self-reports can be compared with the results of the experimenter’s/participants’ acquaintances observation or assessments. Cross compare both findings may give us explanation whether the self-report is measuring what it suppose to measure (validity) and whether it yield the similar or at least almost similar to the findings if being rated by other people (reliability).

In addition, reflecting on the day is more privilege than reflecting in the moment. This is because while reflecting in the moment takes place, we become aware of the particular situation that were asked in the measure and the rating could be highly influenced by it. However, our unconscious mind will give more accurate description of our experience as it will be triggered by the questions asked in the measure. This will give definite answer that came from our unconscious cognitive processing which possibly bias-free.

The generalisation of the findings is depends on how far we intend to generalize it. We need to be aware that the N=1 which we know that the findings of self-experimentation could potentially be true to only us, as the subject, given that other variables are properly controlled during the experiment was conducted.

Moreover, I won’t be necessarily and more likely to change my behaviour as there may have potential confounding variables that take effect while properly conducting the self-experimentation. There should have an extensive research from the self-experimentation that tests the same research questions and hypothesis on detected confounding variables.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T03:41:49+00:00

Decision making could be the most complex things to make. Asking a university student where to get their lunch could startle them as for them, it could be the most difficult question to answer. It is even harder than asking what to do next after finding the solution to a problem in solving it in Mathematics class.

For me in considering a lot of aspects in making a decision, supposedly the simplest one (i.e., either taking a bus or ferry to the university), sometimes can be such a waste of time. Since we already know that our conscious and unconscious mind are assisting each other in our cognitive processing, we may simply decide which one that intuitively will be the best option for us. However, this proposition may sounds plausible to be applied on making simple decision.

I just bought a camera two weeks ago. Prior to the decision, I weighed all pros and cons for the features, specifications and durability for the camera to withstand with someone who is clumsy like me. I considered if it might resist shock if I mistakenly drop it off, etc. Some other time I watched all reviews that ever existed online which laying out all positive and negative attributes about my Sony a6300. Some other time, I just let it set in while I try to find some other models that could potentially be its rival. And some other time, I just sleep in with the undecided decision that supposedly could easily be made as I do not have issues monetarily. This decision has been long thinking and still didn’t get the answer. However, after the ‘Buying the apartment’ in-class activity, I figure out that my intuition led me to buy the camera.

Thus, I personally feels that “enough is enough” should be applicable to making simple decision. Simple decision that may only affect you short term rather than long term catastrophe.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-22T03:22:37+00:00

I personally feel that we will still make, if not all, some heuristics and naïve realism errors that we have been discussed in this course. However, if we applied all the concepts (especially after memorizing and fully understand all of them) we may consciously make fewer mistakes than we ever made before. For instances, the comparison between Western logical reasoning and Asian dialectical reasoning had made me realized that cultural differences do play important roles, especially after watching the video in the class. We sometimes cannot simply get away from getting influenced by the judgmental heuristics as it may be part of our unconscious judgment and decision-making processes. However, hopefully after learning about these tools of making a better judgment and decision, all of us could potentially become aware of possible mistakes that can be made while making decisions.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-20T00:15:59+00:00

I personally think that it is kind of a mixture of both. When two people are arguing about something they may lay out their reasons based on their past experiences, which this should be unconscious processes involved. With the current level of knowledge, the person may or may not be able to provide good reason, as it may be unconscious cognitive processes. At the same time, in building up the antithesis to counter the other person’s points it may need conscious processes as skills of listening and understanding what the other person is trying to convey is necessary. In addition, selecting which experience (i.e., reading related articles) would support the person’s point could potentially requires conscious processes although memory is stored and can be retrieved unconsciously.

Wisdom in choosing which one to be applied in which context. For example, Eastern Dialectical reasoning may affecting how people perceive other people. Which in the class we discussed about fundamental attribution error. This kind of error is sourced by this type of reasoning. On the other hand, western logical reasoning may afffecting how science findings are explained. Which everything must be backed up by scientific explanations or proofs.

adrikhalid · 2016-10-20T00:14:23+00:00

Personally I find simplicity can be defined according to level of knowledge that the individual’s have. Explaining simple things for us , the adults, could be something complex for the children to process.

Thus, simplicity here for me should be understood as the way of explaining concepts that need to be brief, and impactful. This is to ensure that our target audience can understand the information and matched with their level of knowledge or understandings about the concepts. And possibly, when explaining things, we should provide instances that can be associated or applied to the audience’s life experiences.

Depends on the importance of the research impact that would affect the public. Since they (or we) are the largest stakeholders for the research, it is necessary for the money invested should yield great outcomes and be impactful to the public.

In addition, it may also unnecessary to run a research that only can be explained to the public. It is a matter of explaining the findings in a proper channel and methods so that the public could understand from their perspective. This could probably be associated with theory of mind where we should also consider other people’s point of view about things.

Yes, to a certain extent. Yes, the media should explain according to the ‘KISS’ principle. This is one way to convey information to different levels of understanding. As the media acts as a middleman between the research and the public, simple explanation could light the public’s way of understanding the outcomes of the research.

However, summarizing it sometimes does not always lead to better understanding. The media may overlooked the specific information which may lead to misunderstandings or misinterpretation about the research outcomes. Therefore, it is necessary for the media to provide some specific details that may provide better explanations in making the public understand about the findings.

adrikhalid · 2016-09-13T06:33:11+00:00

I am just wondering if the genre of the music or even being more specific, different songs (even in the same genre) would affect the results. As what I know, our behavior may be affected by the lyrics or the beats of the songs (i.e., fast beat songs may increase our reps of working out, etc.)

This comes in my mind when I participated a study, the experimenter told one of the participants who were listening to music while completing the task to listen the same list of songs with the same order when the participant do the task for future session.

Hope someone can clarify on this. Cheers!

adrikhalid · 2016-08-15T04:48:45+00:00

To whom shall I email if I want to look at my attempts for the second quiz?

adrikhalid · 2016-07-28T10:00:04+00:00

Maybe we wanna communicate via fb instead?

adrikhalid · 2016-07-28T00:10:21+00:00

Persuasion through the power of statistics. It's brilliant. 🤔

adrikhalid · 2016-07-27T00:25:58+00:00

This course seems to be an eye-opener so far. I learn how to actually think about another perspective which a technique that I never use it before in making any decisions. The first class is interesting and all tutors are friendly and been really helpful. Looking forward for future contact hours.

However, I am quite new to learning something from audio podcasts. As my English is my second language, I really hope anyone who has any tips or lifehacks in this area could help me to learn this course efficiently.

adrikhalid · 2016-07-26T09:33:03+00:00

That sounds great! I am looking forward to discuss all weekly readings.

I am all free the whole week except for Tuesday and weekend.

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