PSYC 2000 Lecture : Notes Outline Modules 1 3 CC
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Subfields of psychology: applied: industrial/organizational: studies and advise on behavior in the workplace, counseling: helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges, clinical: study, assess, and treat people with psychological disorders. Psychiatrists: clinical psychologists: ph. d. ; assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders using therapy, psychiatrists: m. d. ; use drugs and psychotherapy to treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Need for psychological science: scientific study of behavior and mental processes, scientific methods, systematic, but doesn"t psychology just tell us what we already know, sometimes what we think we know isn"t necessarily true. Hindsight bias: hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would foreseen it, i knew it all along phenomenon, examples, va tech shootings, i knew we"d win/lose, rewards shape behavior. Overconfidence: overconfidence phenomenon: tendency to be more confident than correct to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments, there is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home. (ken.
