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Macewan Psyc 104 Class notes ~ Chapter 1- 4

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~ Class notes through chapter 1 and 4 ~ Psych 104 with teacher Trevor Hamilton ~ Textbook: Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding, 4

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Chapter 1:Psychology & Scientific thinking


What is Psychology? Science Vs. intuition

- Psychology:​ the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior

Levels of analysis:
➔ Higher rungs tied most closely to social influences-involves relating to others and
personal relationships-” the mind.”
➔ Middle rungs tied most closely to psychological influences-involves thoughts, feelings,
and emotions.
➔ Lower rungs tied most closely to biological influences-” the brain.”

What makes Psychology so challenging? -and fascinating
Five challenges:

1. Human behavior is difficult to predict
● Actions are multiplied​ determined:​ proceed by many factors.

2. Psychological influences are rarely independent of each other.

3. I​ndividual differences:​ people differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality,
and behavior.

4. People influence each other.
● Reciprocal determinism
5. Behaviour is shaped by culture.
● Emic approach​: investigators study the behavior of a culture from the
perspective of a “native” or insider
● Etic approach:​ investigators study the behavior of a culture from the perspective
of an outsider

Why we can’t always trust common sense:
-Naive Realism: the belief that we See the world precisely as it is
-we assumed that “seeing is believing” and trust our intuitive perception of the world ourselves
-in many cases, “believing is seeing “ rather than the reverse

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