PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Francis Crick, Chronometry, Research Question

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400H
• Professor: Ben Bauer

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Psychology: study of how humans can retain knowledge. Cognition: the nature of what the brain and mind do in terms of understanding self and the environment. The dunning-kruger effect is a cognitive bias that warps our ability to judge our own competence: Who is the author of principals in psychology: william james (1842-1910) Your mind is you, curiosity about your 1. 4 l of goo: ions, electricity, tissue, fat. You are no more than behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and the brain. Using the scientific study of the mind, we go beyond description/intuition/introspection/case-study/relativism that is characteristic of pop-psychology and pseudo-science. Go beyond description/intuition/introspection/case-study/relativism characteristic of psychology and pseudo-science. Early scientific psychology (1800s): lower limits of perception (vis. aud. ), memory and forgetting, intellect and individual differences, education, psychology, sometimes called experimental philosophy". The mind and its events are not directly measurable, we must use indirect evidence to.