PSYCH-UA 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prefrontal Cortex, Psychological Science, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Psychology: science of behavior (focus on the individual: problem of replications/reproductions: most psychology studies don"t replicate, cause: the conditions may vary/differ. Idealism: minds make reality: modularity: the mind is a collection of parts, empiricism: believe only what you can count. **control groups vital to ensure that the dependent variable is actually being changed at all. If new traits can be passed on to offspring (i. e. , inherited), they will tend to accumulate: four pitfalls, natural fallacy, things are right because they are natural (as well as wrong because unnatural) Is does not equal not : right is a cultural definition, gmo"s are opposed since it doesn"t seem natural, deterministic fallacy, things are inevitable because they"re natural, humans can disobey their genes. If we are programmed to be what we are, then these traits are impossible to avoid. We may, at best, channel them, but we cannot change them either by will, education, or culture. - stephen j. gould.
