PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Falsifiability, Sunk Costs, Latent Learning
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3/13/2013 8:47:00 am (psych day 1 in different document) Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychologists engage in the study of psychology in order to understand, explain and predict behavior. Free will- the way that one behaves is completely determined by whatever spirit moves them. We don t know what you are going to do because you don t know what you are going to do. It is caused by some specific event of experience, or genes. We can explain all behavior if we understood all factors that influence it. Everything happens for a reason, everything has a specific cause. Broadbent (1858) only attend to a limited number of stimuli at a time. Miller (1956) studied how much information you could hold in your head at any given time. He determined you can hold about 7 items in your memory (telephone numbers) opened the floodgates for studying mental processes.
