PSY 101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Norepinephrine, Memory, Anxiety
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Predict winner of election: called people before the election asking who they think is going to win. People weren"t sure but after the election, vast majority said they weren"t surprised. Predict rape case: told half of the people the date ended normally and the other half that the girl got raped. When they asked if they expected the girl to get raped, they said no if they knew it ended normally and vice versa. The scientific study of behavior and the mind. Behavior: any activity that can be observed, recorded, and measured. Mind: all conscious and unconscious mental states. Identify the common elements of experience: key idea: our consciousness can be broken down into its essential elements. Careful, systematic self-observation of one"s own conscious experience: key idea: the personal observation of our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Ignore what this object is, and instead, describe your conscious experience of it.