PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias, Pseudoscience

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Penelope Kostopoulos

Document Summary

First meeting of the american psychology association was 1892. Aim: identify the most fundamental elements of psychological experience. Importance of introspection what was the mental experience. Focused on empiricism what we can learn from the sense what we perceive. Aim: understand the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics. Aim: uncovering the general laws of learning by focusing on external observable elements only studied things they could measure. Helped to understand learning and the importance of scientific rigor. Black box psychology: the human mind is a black box we know what goes into it and what comes out of it but we don"t need to worry about what happens between the inputs and the outputs. Aim: understand mental processes underlying thinking in a variety of contexts. Aim: uncover internal processes we are unaware of and how they shape our behaviour and feelings. Starting point for conceiving mental processes outside of conscious awareness.