PSY 1101 Lecture : Lectures for Prologue and Ch. 1 (Thinking Critically) Here are the notes from Brown's 2011 Psych lectures pertaining to the prologue and Ch.1 of the Psychology textbook, 9th edition. Itallics are added comments during the lectures, everything else is str

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Robert Brown

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The monkey (in the picture) does not seem to be in its natural habitat (in a city). There may be a leash on the monkey (in the picture, it is hard to tell), it may be a pet or put to work. figure out what is most likely to be true. Definition of science (oxford): a branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated. Western dictionary: a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws as tested. It is a system or a process that makes decisions of what is fact. Behaviour: the manner in which a thing acts under specified conditions or circumstances, or in relation to other. Under specified conditions for science, means that behaviour is not defined by what it does but by surroundings. A monkey holding a snowball (this kind of monkey - snow monkey actually makes snowballs).