PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Color Vision, Heredity, Participant Observation

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Tammy Rahhal

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), helping behavior (in uences), phobias (fear vs. phobia), development, personality, memory: population, what organisms do we study, humans, animals. Ethics, simpler systems: method of inquiry, how do we study it, case studies/observations/surveys, correlation, experimentation. A person means to say "you look great" but really say "you look fat: free will vs. determinism. Can a person choose to get themselves out of a depressive state: individual differences vs. universals. Is it ok to turn a trolley away from killing 5 people on one track to a track where it kills only 1 person: nature vs. nurture. Socio-cultural: how do behavior/thinking vary across situation/ cultures, research methods, the scienti c method, hypothesis - a statement that can be tested for validity, comes from , dissatisfaction with other"s theories, new questions about research. Examine one person in depth to understand human nature in general.