PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Near-Death Experience, Sleep Deprivation, Psychoactive Drug

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

John locke: the mind at birth is a blank slate, the mind acts only on what enters through the senses. Francis bacon: founder of modern science, science should be based on experience and experiments. Freud: role of the unconscious in determining our behaviour, unconscious freud emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behaviour. Thinking critically (chapter 1: logic aristotle and plato maintained that all knowledge can be logically deduced. Science and empiricism experimental manipulation: many critics of psychology as a science claim it need not be studied at all. Psychology is mainly common sense , but common sense intuition can lead us to error: hindsight bias the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. Thus critics of pyschology claim it is guilty of the hindsight bias. The belief that most people agree w/ our opinons/beliefs/likes: illusionary correlation a perceived nonexistent correlation.