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Psych is Born
Definitions
Big Ideas
Limits of Intuition
Scientific attitude
100
Science of behavior and mental processes
What is behavior
100
Science of mental life
What is Psychology until the 1920s
100
Human behavior can be viewed from three levels
What is Biological,Psychological,Social-cultural
100
three common flaws of intuition and critical thinking
What is hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving order in random events
100
Includes a passion to explore and understand the world without misleading or being misled
What is Curiosity
200
Four big roots in psychology
What is critical thinking, biopsychosocial approach, two track mind, exploring human strengths
200
Objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
What is Psychology according to Watson and Skinner
200
Approach that integrates different but complementary views from biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints.
What is Biopsychosocial approach
200
Tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we could have predicted it.
What is Hindsight bias
200
Involves awareness that mistakes are possible and willingness to be surprised
What is Humility (remember "the rat is always right")
300
Anything a human or nonhuman animal does
What is Behavior
300
Emphasis on unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences
What is Science according to Freud
300
controversy that focuses on the relative influence of genes and experience in the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
What is nature vs nurture
300
People tend to think they know more than they do.
What is overconfidence
300
Supports questions about behavior and mental processes
What is skepticism
400
Internal states inferred from behavior
What is Mental Processes
400
Humanistic view with emphasis on growth potential of healthy people
What is Psychology according to Maslow
400
The brain works on two tracks through dual processing what are they?
What is Conscious mind and Unconscious mind
400
People perceive patterns to make sense of their world.
What is Perceiving order in random events
400
Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
What is Theory
500
Science of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology
500
Scientific exploration of how information is perceived, processed, and remembered
What is Psychology according to Cognitive psychologist
500
Principle that, at the same time, our mind processes information on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
What is Dual processing
500
Why, after friends start dating, do we often feel that we knew they were meant to be together?
What is hindsight bias
500
Testable prediction
What is Hypothesis