PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Horoscope, Confirmation Bias, Falsifiability

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Niusha Ghazban

Document Summary

* effect of childhood experiences on adult behavior. * romantic relationships, self-help issues, pop psych, much of which is more about. * 10 things that make psychology challenging (p. 3) * challenge 2: multi-determinism that most of the things studied in. * challenge 3: multicollinearity goes further, to point out that the multiple psychology (and other areas) are not the result of just one cause factors are themselves related to each other. * emotional states may influence later cognition and judgments . * psychology initially borrowed ideas, people, and methods from . * cogito ergo sum i think, therefore i am . * today, most scholars today think descartes was wrong about mind and body dualism. * see damasio"s 1994 book descartes" error: emotion, reason, and the. * mind is just our subjective experience of our brain"s physiology. * but descartes was right on a number of points, and his dualism view served its purpose in his day .