PSY 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Belief Perseverance, Pseudoscience, Behaviorism

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert W.Weisberg

Document Summary

1. 1 what is psychology? study of our brain and how we act. Levels of analysis from biological influences -> social & cultural influences. All actions are factors all work together, usually not independent everyone is different, so theres so many different answers to everything in psychology. People influence one another extraverted person makes other people more outgoing, and then their behavior may feed back to make you even more outgoing difficult to isolate causes of behavior. Common sense usually the opposite of psychological research. Ex: humans usually think, more people=safer environment research says, more people= less likely for help to come our common sense contradicts itself, for example, we believe both abscence makes the heart grow fonder . Why this can"t always be trusted? because appearances aren"t always what they seem to be (earth seems. Messes up how we see ourselves and others. Ex: going to cross a street and seeing a car coming, we instinctively don"t cross.