PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: These Kids, Psych, Freaked
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Reasons for doing something tied to success. Interested in people (how you want to find the mechanics around how we function, how we are etc) You want to know why some people are strange/ hold strange belief. You want to more effectively reach your goals. You want to deal with your issues" (traumas; people have different issues that we cant even imagine) Understanding why people do what people do psychology provides important insights into people and is used in; counseling, teaching, research, selling cars, consulting, management, activism and manipulating friends. But psychology is not easy, because it covers huge variety of topics, genes, culture, etc. not every topic is going to be interesting to you. Overlapping with many other areas of study, and including many different types of subject material, from amygdala, depression, to dementia, babies to brains, culture to consciousness etc. Fundamental insights of psych the movie matrix; reality was different from what he thought it was.
