PS101 Lecture Notes - Lithium Carbonate, Behaviorism, Inverse Relation
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How our physical, mental states and external environment affects our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Example: shows 40-60 year olds are happier. Pseudoscience: promises easy fixes to life"s problems and challenges. Example: resolving your happiness as an adult by. Reliving the supposed trauma of your birth, become more creative on the job by reprogramming your brain: unsupported popular opinion. Children leave their parents- parents don"t know what to do. Make judgments based on the basis of well supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion. Ask questions and examine evidence: look for the source of information. Analyze assumptions / biases: think about assumptions being made in research. Don"t oversimplify: interested in hundreds of pieces of data. Avoid emotional reasoning: avoid intense emotional reasoning, focus on facts. Tolerate uncertainty: there is no right or wrong answer, evidence for and against. Pre modern: john locke argued that the mind works by associating ideas arising from experience, theory of phrenology.
