PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Stanley Coren, Smoking Cessation, Scientific Method
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Psychology is the explicit study of how people think, feel, and behave. Many themes and studies contained within the discipline. Personality, learning and memory, social development, hormones and behaviour, abnormal behaviour, relationships and emotion, clinical issues. All of these disciplines concerned with fundamental issues of human experience. Rely on experience and authority in the construction of our beliefs. Illustrate the limitations of non-scientific approach (and scientific approach). Teach scientific method as it applies to psychology. Teach how to write a research paper (research proposal/review). Methods we use in day to day world and in some other disciplines subject to numerous limitations. Tend to rely on personal experience, intuition, and opinions of authority figures . Brief descriptions about claire made by her friends. After reading each statement, i will ask you some questions about claire. Seven limitations of personal experience: confirmation bias and discounting problem:
