PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spurious Relationship, Random Assignment, Informed Consent
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How does it differ from other areas of science: psychology is the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. 1879 wilhelm wundt focused on consciousness and mental processes. Are our behaviors attributable mostly to our genes or our rearing environments: free will determinism b. i. To what extent are our behaviors freely selected rather than caused by factors outside of our control: conscious vs. unconscious processing c. i. What are the pros and cons of heuristics: representative heuristics is focusing on whether a description is representative of a category"s members, and ignores useful base rate information. This can cause us to underestimate or ignore important information because we focus of whether a description follows a certain category that we believe in. Ex: rudy, artistic, tattoos, performer - think he would be a trapeze artist rather than a lawyer but statistically there is a more lawyer than trapeze artists. Linda problem: availability heuristic is judging things based on current memory.
