PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sympathetic Nervous System, Central Nervous System, Frontal Lobe
10 Apr 2018
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The hindsight bias:( know it all along) is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it. Predict rape case janoff-bulman et al. (1985) : the scientific study of behavior and the mind. Any activity that can be observed, recorded, and measured. Mind: all conscious and unconscious mental states must be inferred. Goals of psychology (to describe behavior to explain behavior to predict behavior to control or change. Structuralism - identify the common elements of experience. Introspection (cid:13472) : the examination or observation of one"s own mental and emotional processes. Key idea: our consciousness can be broken down into its essential elements. The personal observation of our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors ignore what this object is, and instead, describe your conscious experience of it. Key idea: our consciousness serves an adaptive purpose by helping us.
