PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Representativeness Heuristic, Daniel Kahneman, Behavioral Neuroscience
1 Dec 2016
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Some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong: there is no scientific basis that support the theory of learning styles. Cognitive dissonance is a counterintuitive finding with profound implications. There is a dissonance between your action and your belief and therefore for it to make sense in your brain you either have to change your action or your belief. cog ni tive dis so nance noun. Psychology: the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. Major perspectives in psychology: most all perspectives define psychology as the discipline interested in studying human behavior and mental processes, but that covers a lot of ground and the causes of behavior and mental processes are not always clear. Psychological processes are embedded in biology: qualities women want in a long term mate, qualities men want in a long term mate psy cho bi ol o gy.
