PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Illusory Correlation, Central Nervous System, Myelin
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Psychology- scientific study of behavior including thoughts, feelings, physiological responses. Subject matter is immediately available to us; (everyone is thinking, feeling, doing, etc. ) Most everyone has their own implicit theories about why people do something. A systematic way of gathering data and testing hypothesis in search of replicable effects and general laws of behavior behavior includes thought, feelings, actions, attitudes (all mental processes) The scientific attitude- composed of curiosity (passion for exploration), skepticism, humility. People believe that intuition and common sense can be a good place to start in understanding hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior; e(cid:454): (cid:862)go (cid:449)ith (cid:455)our gut(cid:863) Hindsight bias- the (cid:862)i k(cid:374)e(cid:449) it all alo(cid:374)g(cid:863) phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) Anagram- rearranging a group of letters to produce a word, using all the original letters exactly once. Research strategies: how psychologists ask and answer questions. Research process: theories lead to, hypotheses lead to, research and observations. When one trait or behavior accompanies another, we say the two correlate, or are associated with each other.
