PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Pseudoscience, Scientific Method, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

We have all misinterpreted someone else"s meaning in a conversation whether it is their actions, personalities or attitudes. Ex: someone leaning in closer may come off as flirting but you are just speaking too softly. Cyber emotional intelligence: examines the assumptions that we make about people based on their online personalities. Due to the increased in online presence, we have also learned to interpret people by the way they interact online. Psychology is a vast discipline in which composed of many fields of study. However, they all share two things in common, the study of behavior and psychologists employ the scientific method in their work. Psychology: the scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental and social and environmental factors. Scientist: someone who carefully follows a system of observing,, predicting and testing is conducting science, no matter what the subject is.