PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt
10 Apr 2017
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The belief that we see the world precisely as it is. We ll in the blanks with what we think makes sense. Is the scienti c study of the mind, brain, and behaviour. In an attempt to understand, predict, and in some case control human behaviour. 5 main challenges of psychology: behaviour is dif cult to predict. Guns cause violence not the whole reason but a factor) Actions are multiply determined: predictors are rarely independent. This variable caused a certain percent of an action. With multiply determined factors, those factors in turn in uence each as well: people are different from one another. People differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality, and behaviour. Just because you may have been raised in the same place as others doesn"t mean you are all the same. Everyone responds different to the same objective situations. Perspective in uences your decisions: people in uence one another.
