PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Irene Pepperberg, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Jane Goodall
Document Summary
The needs for psychological science: why do we need psychology: help those with problems of a psychological nature, to know things about why people do what they do, how we affect our environment and how it affects us. Answer: many questions we ask that are of psychological nature (may seem like common sense questions, but that is only after the fact). Commonsense describes what has happened after the fact more easily than it predicts what will happen before the fact. Tell one group of people that psychologists have found that separation weakens romantic attraction. Common sense- out of sight, out of mind! Then tell a group of people that psychologists have found that separation strengthens romantic attraction. Both sound sensible which is why a study needs to be done. The rationale: per(cid:272)eptual ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologists" dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455) that the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:448)isual s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) is (cid:373)ost sensitive to light with wavelengths between 510 and 570 nm (yellow).
