PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Candace Newmaker, Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias
20 Apr 2016
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Psychology from inquiry to understanding second canadian edition dsm 5 update same as psy 202. The scientific study of the mind, brain, behavior. In an attempt to understand, predict and in some cases control human behavior. Choice changes your behavior-it is all in your head. Social culture influences (involves relating to others and personal relationships) Behavior is difficult to predict (because we use one variable, must think of social norms, atmosphere and other influencing variables) Predictors are rarely independent (lots of correlation; factors interact, it depends ) People are different from one another (canadians are polite) Actions are multiply determined (criminal past, tendencies, mental disorders cause violence, however not often as those people are medicated, etc. ) With multiply determined factors, those factors in turn influence each other as well. Individual differences (self-enhancement, external reasoning, disconnect, re-try until you make it work). People differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior. (we attribute behavior to personality,
