PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Memory, Falsifiability, Affect Heuristic
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Pseudoscience no evidence, anecdotal support, confirms existing beliefs. Examine the evidence, ask what is provided, evaluate reliability. Analyze assumptions (beliefs taken for granted) and biases (assumptions limit our consideration) Do not oversimplify, resist generalizations, reject either/or thinking. Consider other interpretations, generate reasonable explanations, choose the ones that account for most evidence and least assumptions: occam"s razor when you have two competing explanations for the same problem, the simpler explanation is the best. Tolerate uncertainty, learn to accept that definite conclusions are not always possible with evidence currently available. Structuralism e. b. titchener, relied on wundt"s introspection, analysis of sensations, images, and feelings into basic elements, examine how basic elements are related, asks what happens. Functionalism william james, emphasis on the function or purpose of behaviour and consciousness, asks both how and why. Psychoanalysis sigmund freud, emphasis on unconscious motives and conflicts, broad theory of personality based on these motives and conflicts, produced a method of psychotherapy.
