PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pattern Matching
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Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations intrinsic - internal - more effective in goal setting and achieving goals. Fundamental insights of psychology lessons that a century of psychology research has taught us, and they can deeply change the way you understand yourself, other people, and the world around you. Fi 1 - reality is a story that is told to us by our brains. We think we"re living in the external world but we are actually living in our own representation of that world. And the story teller is our brains. Our experiences do not reflect reality itself, but rather a constructions, or representation of reality this construction process involved a lot of guesswork. A lot of filling in the gaps. You"re not ever dealing with all the information, just bits and pieces and you have to guess what"s in the gaps this subjective representation occurs within the brain the brain becomes super important.
