PSYC 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Naturalistic Fallacy, Genetic Fallacy, Twin

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Kim Elizabeth

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior; a discipline that spans multiple levels of analysis. Multiply determined: produced by many factors; ex: human behavior. Individual differences: variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior; help to explain why we each person responds in different ways to the same objective situation. Reciprocal determinism: the fact that we mutually influence each other"s behavior; can make it challenging to isolate the causes of human behavior. Naive realism: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is. Empiricism: the premise that knowledge should initially be acquired through observation; the beginning of science. Scientific theory: an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world; offers an account that ties multiple findings together. Hypothesis: a testable prediction derived from a scientific theory. Confirmation bias: the tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypotheses and deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that contradicts them.