PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Reductionism
14 Sep 2016
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The take away: some things you know to be true about psychology are wrong. E. g. the learning styles there"s no real proof the them. One will eventually change the other: our perspectives in psychology can change how we decide to do a study. E. g. there was horse known to comprehend english and math by stomping its hoof a certain number of times. People were amazed and a psychologist studied, but it turned out that really the horse was just looking for cues from the audience on when to place the final stamp of its hoof. Reductionism: it is believed that most psychological disorders can be reduced down to biology and corrected with medicine: psychological processes are embedded in biology. The processes of the brain can be explained by the interactions taking place between neurons: your perceptions of the world are guided by your own biases, experiences, and heuristics. Top down processing filters and tries to make sense of it .
