PSYC 231 Lecture 1: PSYC 231 notes week 1-4
25 Jan 2019
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Psychology is an empirical science, with a well-development set of methods to answer questions about social behavior. Hindsight bias: the tendency for people to overestimate how well they would have predicted an outcome (past event or research finding), after it has already occurred. Personality psychology scientific study of the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of what makes us who we are. Self and identity: personal sense of who one is: Social cognition: study of how our personality and decision making is influenced by our social environment. Traits: typical way of thinking, feeling, and acting, in various situations, at different times. Individual who are low in conscious, have issues in later years of behaviors, but their traits did not change. Evolutionary forces: have caused people to develop behaviors and traits that are adaptive to the environment and that facilitate survival. Neuroscience: study of how brain and central nervous system affects personality.
