PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Vibraphone, Scientific Theory, Belief Perseverance

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: PSY 2012
• Professor: Nicole Dorey

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Science versus intuition: william james founder of american psychology, psychology and levels of analysis. Psychology: the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. Levels of analysis: lower rungs tied to most closely to biological influences and the higher rungs tied mostly to social influences. 3. people differ in thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior. Differences help to explain why each person responds differently to the same objective situation: people influence each other. Albert bandura called it reciprocal determinism-the fact that we mutually influence each other"s behavior: people"s behavior is often influenced by culture, common sense. Na ve realism: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is. Seeing is believing. can lead us to draw incorrect conclusions about human nature. Our beliefs shape our perceptions of the world, often in ways we don"t realize. Our snap (five-second) judgments about people tend to be right (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176) (cid:176: psychology as a science.