PSYCH 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Steven Pinker, Caffeine, Scientific Method

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Behavioral neuroscience: an approach to psych that links psychological processes to processes in the nervous system to other bodily processes. Cognitive neuroscience: field of study attempts to understanding links b/w cognitive processes and brain activity. Evolutionary psych: explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection (anything beneficial to survival will be preserved over time) Social psychology: study of causes and consequences of sociality (how we interact w people and how that affects us) Cultural psych: study of how cultures reflect and shape their members humanistic psych: human nature. Steven pinker, a good explanation, broad level. Satisfying explanation that is simple but can be used to understand broader topics. The gold standard of science is experimentation since it isolated variables to determine causality. One with too many independent variables because scientists will be unable to determine causality based on the results. Quasi-experiment: no random assignment of independent variables.