PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Thinking, Product Placement, Pseudoscience

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

Document Summary

Lecture 2: psychology is de ned most accurately as the scienti c study of behaviour, thought and experience, hypothesis is a testable prediction (speci c and scienti cally testable statements about the nature of things) Theory an explanation for a range of observations: scientist use their theories or other"s theories to generate hypothesis, a theory must be falsi able (or it isn"t a scienti c theory) The bio-psychosocial model is a means of explaining behaviour as a product of biological, psychological and sociocultural in uences: biological in uences: involve the brain structures and chemicals, hormones and external substances such as drugs. The approach that incorporates the biological socicultutal and psychological factor to help explain human behaviour is refereed as: a)hypothesis b) theory: psychology c)bio-psychosocial model d) generation, by considering possible alternatives, being skeptical and examining. Of evidence an individual is engaging: a) critical thinking b) biased: pseudoscience d) hypothesis.