PSYCH 1F03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Evolutionary Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Observer-Expectancy Effect
1 Dec 2016
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Experimental psychologists may go to work every day and never see patients. Work at places like universities, research centers and industry to engage in cutting edge research using a variety of tools to ask questions with common goal to understand human thought and behaviour. Psychology is really all about you, it teaches us how we think, feel, develop, learn, love, interact and grow. Approaching a problem like a psychologist requires you to think critically about information, to trust you gut feeling or believe something from an unproven source can lead to sloppy thinking. Many urban myths are passed on by accepting aa hypothesis which may have no scientific basis. Experimental psychology uses the scientific method to collect, evaluate and interpret information to draw sound conclusions. This process of critical thinking and some healthy skepticism are important tools to guide you through the world of information overload.
