PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Experiment, Scientific Method, Dependent And Independent Variables
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What is psychological science, what are the latest developments, what are the scientific foundations in psyc. , where has it gone in the last 50 years. Is the study through research of the mind, brain, and behavior. The brain- mental activity results from biological processes within the brain. Psycologists crtically evaluate info to rech reasonable conclusuions. Critical thinking systematically questions and evaluates information using well supported and researched evidence. The amiable skeptic: combination of openness and wariness, open to new ideas but critical of them. Willing to entertain new research but you have to think about it in a crticall way, you wont just accept it. Non critical thinking can lead to erroneous conclsuons: ignoring evidence, failing to accurately judge source credibility, misunderstanding or not using statistics, seeing relationships that do not exist, using relative comparisons, taking mental shortcuts (these are all thinking errors) There is a direct relationshop with violent games and movies and how violent an individual us.
