PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conversion Disorder, Mcgill University Health Centre, Psychophysics

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Cyber emotional intelligence examines the assumptions we make about the people based on their online personalities. Psychology involves the study of behaviour that broadly defined, can include perception, thoughts and emotions. Psychologists employ their scientific method in their work. Psychology is a scientific study of behaviour, thought and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. Conducting a science is a following a system of observing, predicting and testing. The scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories, and explaining them using the theories to make predictions. A hypothesis is a testable prediction about the processes that can be observed and measured. Pseudo science is an idea that is presented as science but does now actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. Theory is an explanation for a broad range of observations that also generate new hypotheses and integrates numerous finding into a coherent whole.