PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Depressive Realism, Hindsight Bias, Social Influence
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior. Anything an animal or human does, feels, or thinks. The biggest question that looks at the study of consciousness and tries to understand what is the soul. Consciousness is our experience of life, where does it go when we die, is it there when we are first conceived. Science is science not because of the object of study, but because of the way that it is studied (rigorous empiric scientific method) Psychology is a science firmly based in empirical research. Social psychology is a science that studies the influences of our situations, with special attention to how we view and affect one another. We usually do things based on the type of person that we are. Others have a better idea of why we do things. How what we believe and what we do affects others around us.
