PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prefrontal Cortex, Thalamus, Trichromacy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

This examines the assumptions people make about other people"s personalities based on what they learn online. Studies behavior, thought, and experience and how these are affected by physical, mental, emotional and environmental factors. Way of tackling and exploring the scientific world through observations, developing a theory to explain the findings, and utilizing the theory to create further predictions. A testable prediction about something that can be observed and measured. Presented as science with a lacking use of the scientific method. Attempts to explain a broad range of observations, and may also stimulate new hypotheses and new findings as a whole: good theories become the explanations for phenomenon, any scientific theory must be falsible. Explains behavior as a result of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Biological: brain structures, chemicals and drugs, hormones. The belief that knowledge comes through experience: meaning knowledge based on the world has come through careful observation. All events are controlled carefully through cause and effect relations.