Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Truism, Karl Lashley, Sociobiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Jumbled words/paragraph/scrambled letters: assumption: if the first and last letters of a word remain intact, the rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. Everyday observation usually is casual rather than systematic. Our own experiences also may be atypical and not. Sept 10, 2012 representative of what most people experience. Not relying on imprecise casual observations: using video recorders, questionnaires, brain-imaging devices to objectively and precisely record people"s responses. Thinking critically about behavior: critical thinking involves taking an active role in understanding the world around you rather than merely receiving information. It also means evaluating the validity of something presented to you as fact: ask: People can read jumbled words without a problem as long as the first and last letters stay in place. People have no problems because we read words as a whole rather than as individual letters. To describe how people and other animals behave.