PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phineas Gage, Behaviorism, External Validity
10 Apr 2018
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Amiable-- open to info but you want to question it. Always try to find source of information. Critical thinking and amiable skepticism is relevant here. Don"t default to thinking about own experiences. The mind-- chemical, electrical, and physical makeup. The brain-- chemical, electrical, and physical makeup. Individual-- personality traits, gender identity, different way in which people perceive their world. Social-- about interactions with other human beings, refers to smaller groups of individuals (similar to cultural) Cultural-- large societal, cultural groups (similar to social) All levels of analysis relate, must understand one to understand the others. Tendency to want to only look for things that support only what we already think, ignore other evidence that goes against what we think. Ex-- googling liberal things, google will only show you liberal search things in the future (cookies) Looking backwards in time, vision is always perfect. Now that outcome is known, looks clear all along, but in the moment it was not clear.
