PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Abraham Maslow, Edward B. Titchener, Natural Selection

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Alison Luby

Document Summary

Psychology scientific study of mind, brain and behaviour. Psychology as a way to manipulate people. Gives the ability to analyze" others upon meeting. Research studies are made on animals (mice and monkeys) Are studied by more mentally unstable people than the general population. We can"t just rely on our common sense because it will often lead us astray: evaluate all claims with an open mind, insist on persuasive evidence before accepting these claims. In this class, you will learn how psychology tries to disentangle truth from common sense . In the process, you will learn the tools to help you become more informed consumers of persuasive messages you might come across. Critical thinking process of objectively/systematically evaluating, comparing, analyzing, and. Gives the appearance of science but are actually false synthesizing information to reach reasonable conclusion. Correlation-causation fallacy the error of assuming that because one thing is correlated with another, it must cause the other.