PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Falsifiability, Behaviorism, Wilhelm Wundt
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Chapter 1 psychology and scientific thinking (september 4th 2013) Refer to psychology as the scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior. Another way of making this point is to describe psychology as a discipline that spans multiple levels of analysis. Levels of analysis rungs on a ladder of analysis, with lower levels tied most closely to biological influences and higher levels tied most closely to social influences. Levels of analysis in psychology stretch all the way from molecules to brain structures on the low rungs to thoughts, feelings and emotions. Lower rungs associated with the brain and the higher rungs are associated with the mind . Anorexia nervosa: people differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality and behavior. These individual differences help explain why we each respond in different ways to the same objective situation, such as an insulting comment.
