PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Cultural Evolution, How We Think

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Jordan Pennefather

Document Summary

Is about you and about us: psychology is the most popular major at many colleges and universities, psychology is personally relevant, psychology is relevant to us all. Why do psychology: the science of psychology helps make these examined conclusions, which leads to our understanding of how people feel, think, and act as they do. What about intuition and common sense: many people believe that intuition and common sense are enough to bring forth answers regarding human nature. Hindsight bias: is the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon, after learning the outcome of an event, many people believe they could have predicted that very outcome. We only knew the dot. com stocks would plummet after they actually did plummet. Psychology is an empirical science: the scientific method: objective, systematic, procedures used to understand what is being studied, understanding how science is conducted makes it possible to tell which studies are credible and which are not.