PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ovulation, Scientific Method, Lawrence Summers

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Relevant sections: module 1. 1, pages 6-9 / module 2. 1, pages 40-42: goal: convince you that common sense if not sufficient to understand and predict behaviour. September 15, 2016 scientific method is necessary to understand and predict behaviour. Intuitive/fold psychology: your view of psychology without applying science. personal speculation over hypothesis development and testing, psychology = common sense, observations often done in folk physics --> people who have had no formal physics training, intuitive physics. Answer: path = straight line perpendicular to string. Answer: path = before you reach target: intuitions about motion are incorrect despite years of experience with moving objects, not until galileo began conducting experiments did the principles of motion became clear, counterintuitive findings from psychological science. What are your intuitions about what makes a face attractive/unattractive: facial attractiveness. Science: inconsistent (e. g. changes during hormonal state) more masculine features attractive attractive during ovulation men pass on strong genes to offspring for further reproduction.