PSY 112 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Spinal Cord, Psychology
20 Nov 2018
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Intuition: thinking that"s more experiential, emotional, automatic, & unconscious; doesn"t lead to careful analysis of all variables in a. Hindsight bias: tendency to think that we could"ve predicted something that has already occurred that we probably wouldn"t have been able to predict. situation. All scientists use empirical research to study topics that interest them: empirical research include, collecting data, analyzing data. Not all questions can be answered using scientific approaches. Scientists generally don"t attempt to prove values, beliefs, or opinions to be true/false: values: personal statements, facts: objective statements determined to be accurate through empirical study. Scientific procedures don"t necessarily guarantee that answers to questions will be unbiased: subfields of psychology: Neuroscience: examines how brain & nervous system, & also other biological processes as well, determine behavior. Experimental psychology: studies processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, & thinking about the world. Cognitive psychology: focuses on higher mental processes.
