PSY100H1 Lecture 1: PSY100 Lecture 1 Fall 2014
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Insights into people: used for counselling, teaching, manipulation, etc. Covers whole spectrum: vast amount of things to cover, diversity of topics. Life will be easier if you talk to them! Blackboard will be used as the course website. Receive 4 credits for each experiment: worth 4% of grade. Psychology involves methods, ethics, and research: done through experiments. Lessons that lots of research taught us: example: reality is a story told by the brain. Brains are artists: they do not function like mirrors. Brains are storytellers: reality is turned into something. Reflect representation of reality: guesswork involved in construction process; gaps get filled in, happens inside the brain. But how often does perception solve the mystery: we deal with basic uncertainty implicitly, reality sometimes can be different. Perception: storytelling and inferring: fill in missing gaps, reality doesn"t always agree with story, our conscience is the story, gaps are bad stories, and thus bad realities.
