PSY 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
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What you know = what you can do. Admiration- who they admire, and why they admire them: study in adults and children, we admire people who have attributes we value. Captain chelsey sully sullenberger: took off from laguardia, landed in the hudson river, everyone survived and in that moment he became a hero. How do our assumptions affect our practices: movie rating system, why do we have it, children. In psychology, our ideas must be tested by experimentation: test people, not just those we know, and many people, we must utilize unbiased observers, there must be control of confounding variables. Four attitudes of the scientific approach: thinking deeply and actively, curiosity, skepticism, objectivity (humility) Surprising studies: milgram, shock study, decasper and spencer, babies choosing books. What is psychology: the systematic study of behavior and experience (mental processes) Why do boys act tough: society tells you that boys need to act tough. Instinctual need: survival, natural selection, hormones (testosterone)
