PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Abraham Maslow, Phlegm, Cognitive Neuroscience
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Different brain structures working together to produce our behavior. Nature (genetics) and nurture (our upbringing and environment) interaction to make us who we are. Family, culture, and crowds and how they affect us. Feelings of control and its affect towards happiness and health. Involves the interaction between hypothesis and theories: scientific thinking and procedures revolve around the concepts of a hypothesis and theory, hypothesis: a testable prediction about processes that ca be observed and measured. Can be supported or rejected you cannot prove a hypothesis: scientist use theories to generate hypotheses, falsifiable: the hypothesis is precise enough that it could be proven false (testable) Specific predictions can test the theory and integrates numerous findings into a coherent whole. General principles or explanation of some aspect of the world. Built from hypothesis that are repeatedly tested and confirmed. Good theories eventually become accepted explanations of behavior or other phenomena.
