PSYC 2360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Vehicle Frame, Sigmund Freud, Behavioural Sciences
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Lectures 1 & 2 intro to research. There are four ways to learn about the world: What is behavioural research? and behaviours of humans and animals. Behavioural research: research designed to study the thoughts, feelings. What is psychological research? study the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of humans and animals. Psychological research: systematic empirical investigations designed to consistent) This research is empirical (based on observation) and systematic (logically. The intuition problem: accepting explanations without testing them know. This problem may lead people to think they know things they do not really we probably could not have predicted. Hindsight bias: the tendency to think we could have predicted something way that supports our current beliefs. Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for or interpret evidence in a. Absence makes the heart grow fonder/out of sight out of mind. Look before you leap/he who hesitates is lost. Challenges to psychology practice that claims to be scientific but does not follow the scientific method.
