PSY 102 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 notes
7 Nov 2018
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Chapter 1 psychology and scientific thinking: a framework for everyday life. There are five main challenges that make the study of mind, brain and behaviour complex. First, human behaviour is difficult to predict because almost all actions are multiply determined. Fourth, people often influence each other, which makes it difficult to pin down what causes what: for example, if you are an extroverted person, you are more likely to make those around you more outgoing. Fifth, people"s behaviour is often shaped by culture: cultural differences, like individual differences, place limits on the generalizations that psychologists can draw about human nature, social scientists sometimes distinguish between emic and etic approaches to cross- cultural psychology. In an emic approach, investigators study the behaviour of a culture from the perspective of a native or insider, whereas in an etic approach, hey study the behaviour of a culture from the perspective of an outsider. The great debates of psychology (not on midterm)
