PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dementia, Amygdala
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Explore through the course: the way that your construct things for yourself. There is a phenomenon gap, a giant chasm in between the objective condition of the world and your subjective experience of the world. If we know how our consciousness work and how we construct reality for ourselves, we can hack into this process to (make ourselves happier, more productive ) Extrinsic vs intrinsic (both motivations can be powerful) Because you"re interested in people, and psychology is supposed to be about what makes people tick. Because you"re a person, and therefore psychology might help you understand yourself a little better . Or because you want to deal with stress better. Psychology provides important insights into people, and is used in. It is a very broad discipline, overlapping with many other areas of study, and involving many different types of subject material, from attitudes to the amygdala, depression to dementia, babies to brains, culture to consciousness, and statistics to stereotypes.
