PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Applied Science, Behaviorism, Jean Piaget

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Brett Michael

Document Summary

Psychology: the scienti c study of the behaviour and the mind. Science involves systematically gathering and evaluating empirical evidence. Systematically: having, showing, or involving a system, method, or a plan. working or done in a step-by-step manner. Empirical: relying on or derived (obtain something from) from observation or experiment. Scienti c research relies on the use of empirical data for acquiring knowledge. Mental shortcuts: rules in which people often use to form judgements and make decisions. Focusing on one aspect of a complex problem and ignoring others. A lack of alternatives: the absence of seeing other options or choices from an idea. Con rmation bias: the tendency to interpret new evidence as con rmation of one"s existing beliefs or theories. Paying attention to the information that upholds our ideas and ignoring the information that challenges our existing beliefs. (believing only what we want to believe about something, and changing it into a fact. ) e. g donald trump and america.