PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fire Hydrant, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Cognitive Load

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Fundamental insights of psychology: lessons that a century of psychology research has taught us, they change the way you understand yourself, other people, and the world around you. Fundamental insight #1: reality is a story, told to us by our brains: subjectivity (inner reality, our brains are artists, not mirrors (something happens, i perceive it) Our experiences do not reflect reality itself , but rather a construction or representation of reality: this construction process involves a lot of guesswork- filling in the gaps . Involves interpreting patterns of sensory information based on preexisting patterns stored in the brain & body: this subjective representation occurs within the brain. Thursday, september 15, 2016: our brains are housed within (and are highly affected by) our bodies: how we think is connected to how our bodies work. Reality is a mind-body process of creative story-telling: the reality: we do not experience the reality as reality, our brain and nervous system changes it, second lecture:

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