Scientific inquiry is a process of critical thinking and question asking that helps determine factual information that has been tested and proven or disproven instead of relying on hypotheses and intuition. Scientific research is important in psychology, as in all scientific fields, because it allows us to examine hypotheses, evaluate results, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, and put ideas to test. test. This scientific approach protects us from hindsight bias, which involves believing that after we have learned a result, we would have predicted it, also known as the “know it all” phenomenon. It also protects us from overconfidence in judgments, the tendency to seek information that confirms a judgment based on intuition. Hindsight bias and overconfidence often lead people to overestimate their intuition and common sense. Instead, scientific research follows a scientific approach that is fueled by a curious desire to skeptically examine competing ideas and by an open-minded humility; used daily as critical thinking and allowing us to determine fact from fiction. With this scientific attitude we deploy the scientific method to create a theory. It starts with making observations. From these observations, we form a theory, which we then refine as new observations shed light on the topic. This scientific theory creates a hypothesis, the testable prediction. Psychologists use various research methods such as case study, survey, naturalistic observation, correlation, and experimentation. In case studies, a psychologist will study a person in depth. This process can show us what can happen and provide ideals that we can then infer to others. This individual, however, may be atypical and provide distorted data to whom...... middle of paper ......This is due to the way we process conscious and unconscious information. Conscious information is processed sequentially and more slowly than unconsciousness, meaning one event leads to the next and so on; as with several cars traveling on a one-way lane and stopping to pay a toll, only one car can travel at a time. Unconsciousness moves faster because it processes information in parallel, simultaneously, meaning multiple events are happening at the same time; as with a car traveling on a parkway with multiple vehicles entering and exiting multiple locations at the same time. Consciousness and unconsciousness are present in sensory processes such as hearing, seeing, reasoning and remembering. As you watch a woman run, you will consciously recognize that she is a woman, and simultaneously you will subconsciously process the fact that she is blonde and wearing black shorts..