PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emic And Etic, Polygraph, Psych
28 Mar 2018
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Scientific of human behaviour at university level. Look at assumptions that are intuitive and testing it to see fit is true. How to critically evaluate assumptions in reality. Different versions and conditions and how they affect the results. Birds of a feather flock together opposites attract. * both sides cant be true because they are opposites so you have to study them to see which one is true or not . * 70 percent spontaneous and 30 percent spent time to think about decisions. Most people use only about 10 percent of their brain false. Hypnosis enhances the accuracy of our memory false but it depends. The lie detector (polygraph) test is 90-95 percent accurate. Accuse everyone so you catch the criminal. The belief that we see the world precisely as it is. We don"t, it"s based on what we have learned as we are growing up. How you perceive the stimuli in front of you.
