PSY 102 Chapter 1-8: Chapter 1-8 textbook notes.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Ayesha Khan

Document Summary

Science vs popular psychology, common vs. uncommon sense. Most of everyone s psychology knowledge comes from the popular psychology industry- a sprawling network of everyday sources of information about human behavior. 1. 1 although common sense can be enormously useful for some purposes, it s sometimes completely wrong. We trust our common sense because we are subject to na ve realism we believe that the world is exactly as we see it. However our common sense is not always wrong, such as that happy employees generally do a better job. 1. 3 growth of popular psychology, many people have psychology however this leads to a misinformation explosion. Self help and the media 3500 self help books are published yet only a small amount is published or screened by experts. Many psychology sites on the internet are not accurate and may cause people to become further misinformed.