PSC 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychological Science, Design Of Experiments, Critical Thinking
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Psychology involves the study of mental activity and behavior. Psychologist is used broadly to describe someone whose career involves understanding mental life of predicting behavior. They did so largely because they had few objective techniques for assessing the mind: question: what produces mental activity, answer: biological activity in the brain. 1. 3 psychological science helps us understand biased or inaccurate thinking: why is it important to care about errors and biases in thinking, false beliefs can sometimes lead to dangerous actions. Some people hunt endangered animals because they believe the animals" body parts provide magical cures : following are a few of the major biases you will encounter. 1. 4 why are people unaware of their weaknesses: another bias in thinking is that people fail to see their own inadequacies. Psychology oriented in philosophy, as the great thinkers sought to understand human nature. 1. 6 experimental psychology initially focused on the structure, not the function, of mental activity.
