PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Participant Observation, Psychological Science, Observer-Expectancy Effect
27 Jan 2017
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1. 1 what is psychological science: psychological science teaches critical thinking: the use of critical thinking skills improves how people think. Amiable skepticism, an important element of science, requires a careful examination of how well evidence supports a conclusion. However, these errors often result in faulty conclusions. Using psychological reasoning can help people overcome these errors and biases in thinking: 1. 2 what are the scientific foundations of psychology, the nature/nurture debate has a long history: nature and nurture depend on each other. Their influences often cannot be separated: the mind/body problem also has ancient roots: dualist notions about the separation of the brain and mind have been replaced with the idea that the (physical) brain enables the mind. Brain and mind are one: experimental psychology began with introspection: psychology"s intellectual history dates back thousands of years. As a formal discipline, psychology began in 1879, in wilhelm wundt"s laboratory in germany.
