PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clinical Psychology, Human Brain, Standard Deviation
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Human brain has as many synapses - connections inside the brain - as there are galaxies in the universe. +sylabus - review to buy the textbook for psyc 101 and psyc 102. Think of a fact that you believe you really know. E. g. how do we experience the thoughts and the feelings of others. Horse galloping problem - debate on how the horse would look like when it is running. Visual illusions, the earth appears to be flat > you cannot unsee an illusion. People don"t always agree on what they are experiencing. The dress illusion; the yanni/laurel illusion; fast rats study. But when it comes to human minds there are even more problems with pure observation: Problem of variety (people are different, choose and do different things differently) Problem of reactivity (people act differently when they are being observed) Science tolls - special ways of measuring human thoughts and behaviors that give us precision and eliminate biases.
