PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reductionism, Psych
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Scientific method formal way of asking and answering questions; most accurate. Two di erent ways of thinking: system one. Fast and e ortless, easy, like our intuition, automatic process to help us nd solutions, quick way of solving problems: system two. Slow and e ortful, take time and energy to think through problem. Some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong: things sound like they should be true, but the evidence points elsewhere. Psychological processes are embedded in biology: hereditary to solve complex problems, a ects what you look for in a partner, di erent biological needs. Perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases, and heuristics: language stream segmentation problem. How to recognize speech, what you expect to hear, what you already know. Top down processing - prior expectations to in uence interpretation of stimuli.
