PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autonomic Nervous System, Fluoxetine, Agonist
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What is psychology: scientific study of behavior. Intuition and common sense are what most people believe is a good start to understand human behavior. In the anagram activity overconfidence was proved because most people thought they were going to be able to complete the task. History of psychology, research methods: case study, it examines one individual or group in depth in the hop of revealing things true of us all, individual cases can suggest fruitful ideas. What"s true of all of us can be glimpsed in any one of us. Both variable behave in the same way: negative correlation, as one variable increases, the other decreases. Biological bias of behavior neuroanatomy: neurons, they are nerve cells and the basic building block of the nervous system, dendrites, branching extensions at the cell body. Neurotransmitters fit into their receptors like lock and key.
