PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spurious Relationship, Egalitarianism, Operationalization
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Psy100h1- lecture 4- fundamental insights continued and psych as a science. Everything is the same: fundamentally: everything is a biological pattern, everything is a pattern of biochemical activity in the brain. What if therapists and psychiatrist do the same thing, just with different tools: therapists use thoughts/ guidance to rewire neurochemistry, psychiatrists use drugs to rewire neurochemistry. When the environment changes, people change and vice versa. Review of 3 fundamental insights reality is a story told to us by our brains attention! Gap between observation and theory problem in the gap between what we can observe and what we want to understand: observed reality vs. theory, observed world vs. theoretical world. Operationalization operationalization the process of taking one"s pure theoretical constructs and figuring out how to represent it through some sort of measurement device: e. g. operationalize exposure to violent media and operationalize violent behaviour.
