PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prologue: Jacob Bronowski, Joseph Jastrow, Canadian Psychological Association
22 Nov 2013
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What makes psychology challenging and fascinating: because they remind us of the almost unimaginable complexity of human, each challenge points us to another mystery, ten things that make psychology challenging, behaviour is difficult to predict. Meehl"s maxim (paul meehl) best guideline predicting. Best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. Ex. to see if someone will be a good employee, look at her past behaviour performance. Probabilistic forecasts that are uncertain: behaviour is multiply determined. Multiply determined produced by many factors. Single-variable explanations stock-in-trade of pop: psychological influences are rarely independent of one another psychology (misleading because they"re incomplete. Multicollinearity the overlap among different causes of behaviour: psychological influences are often unknown. Unaware of key causes of people"s behaviour = virtually impossible to study: people affect each other. Extraverted person want people more outgoing, which makes you even more outgoing reciprocal determinism: people influence each other"s behaviour.
