PSY 1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
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"psyche" = "mind" + "logos" = "knowledge or study" But what distinguishes "psychologists" from musicians, writers, philosophers, astrologists all asking the nature of our personality, how we learn, who we are-- *unable to see the mind directly, must guess using science. Hence the name of our textbook: "psychological science" and our department: "psychological and brain sciences" The "scienti c" study of mind and behavior requires us to employ critical thinking to evaluate information on the basis of well-supported evidence. *be critical of what you read and beware of your own biases. Failing to see our own inadequacies (self-serving bias) An example is the lay-person"s common misunderstanding of correlational date . Correlations imply a relationship between two variables (shoe size and foot size) but not necessarily a causal relationship. E. g. , increases in gun violence in amerian society is correlated with increases in acts of violence seen on tv, the internet and in movies.
