PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Infor, Motivation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

16:18 emotions our thoughts and bodily processes (ex. of body processes are arousal, body posture, ect. ) we are far more feeling creatures that think. The conformation bias: the tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one"s own beliefs we tend to ask questions that confirm our suspicions, or that are consistent with the hypothesis we are testing ex. Gmo"s are bad when people give you all of these stats about why gmo"s are a good thing you automatically will think that they are biased, have bad facts, ect. ex. Us invasion of iraq is this a good idea? people making the ww2 analogies for why it was a good idea, the vietnam analogies for why it was a bad idea. Collin powell who was a very trusted member of the bush party and had him lie to the un that sadam husain had weapons of mass destruction that he could use against the.