PS101 Lecture Notes - Midlife Crisis, Pseudoscience, Behaviorism
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Psychology: how our physical, mental states and external environment affects our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Eg. this work shows 40-60 year olds are happier and parents have greater marital satisfaction when kids leave the nest vs. pseudoscience. Define your terms: crisis, psychotic break?, fancy toys? (cars, boats) Don"t oversimplify: i know someone who , how many people were surveyed. Avoid intense emotional reasoning (alone: avoid preference based opinions over fact based opinions. Tolerate uncertainty: often in psychology there is evidence to support both sides no mathematical answer. Old man gets new sports car because he can actually afford it now, not because of mid life crisis. Pre-modern: phrenology the idea that shape of your head (head bumps) affect your personality, pseudoscience. Too subjective, not everyone has the same conscious experience (someone allergic to peanuts would not enjoy peanut butter cup) Functionalism does not have a set methodology or theory. Not falfisfiable, meaning you cannot disprove it.
