PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Henry Molaison, Lobotomy, Emotional Reasoning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Tisha Ornstein

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Psy 102 lecture 1/2 sept 11th 2018. The study of psychology can help you: learn about and better understand your own and others behaviour, learn techniques for control and improve behaviour, think critically, learn why individuals act, think and feel differently from one another. Looking for differences between the cultures: etic phenomena that applies to all cultures. From the perspective from an outsider of the culture. Scientific theory: an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world, a testable prediction is called a hypothesis (what we might expect to happen) Misconceptions: a theory, explains just one event. Bias awareness: confirmation bias, tendency to seek evidence that supports our hypothesis, neglecting or distorting contradicting evidence, belief perseverance, tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence is contradictory. Psychology vs. pop-psychology: pop-psychology concepts based on psychology that have attained popularity in the general population, self-help industry (ex.