PSY 102 Chapter 1: PSY102 Chapter One Notes New Text
13 Feb 2017
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* psychology: scienti c study of the mind, brain and behavior. * a discipline that spans multiple levels of analysis; biological (molecules and brain structure), psychological (thoughts, feelings, emotions) and social cultural in uences (relating to others, personal relationships) Human behavior is dif cult to predict because most actions are multiply determined, or produced by many factors; actions are due to an array of factors. People differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior (individual differences), therefore making people respond differently in situations, which makes it dif cult to come up with explanations of behavior applying to everyone. People often in uence each other, which is called reciprocal determinism. People"s behavior is often shaped by culture which place limits on the generalizations psychologists can draw about human nature. Why we can"t always trust our common sense. * naive realism: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is.
