PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Terror Management Theory, Naturalistic Fallacy, Belief Perseverance
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Psychology: the scientific study of thought and behaviour: thoughts: internal mental processes, behaviors are influenced by objects + events (stimuli) and the environment in which they occur (context) e. g. math, how things impact eating, psychological. Eating disorder genes - heritable: brain damages, perceived behavioural control, naturalistic fallacy: what"s natural is good not necessarily, reciprocal determinism: people constantly interact and affect each other. Errors in human thinking: confirmation bias, overvaluing information that agrees with our beliefs and undervaluing ones that dont. Illusion of causality: humans are hardwired to determine causes and patterns, and sometimes we"re wrong (e. g. apophenia a sink looking like a face, not me fallacy. I"m not wrong, but people are: antiquity fallacy. Idea has been around forever, so it must be true: appeal to authority, the president said it, so it must be true, appeal to ignorance. I don"t see a reason why: either/or fallacy.
