PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Prior Probability, Big Bang
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Psyc 2001 week 1 lecture 1 & 2. Office hours: mondays 4pm-530pm or by appointment at loeb a311. Regression towards the mean- if you do some chance events, on average if we did this over again most people would be around 40-60% and if you did it 100 times you would be around. Gamblers fallacy when you have 2 independent events based on chance (flipping a coin) and believe that these 2 events can somehow effect each other. There is simply no way to predict what will happen. The main goal of this class will be to introduce you to the application of the scientific method to the study of mind and behaviours. It is the most important class that you will take during your undergrad degree in psychology. Last name (date) develop expertise in psychology, helps in tests and studying. What is science: solvable problems, systematic empiricism, publicly verifiable. Book: 50 great myths of popular psychology lilienfeld.
