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The Field of Psychology

• Lecture Notes for Module 1

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What Isnt Psychology?
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What Is Psychology?

• Definition
• Psychology is the Scientific Study of Behavior
  and the mind.

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Goals of Psychology

• Not just to describe and explain behavior but
  also to predict and control behavior.

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What do psychologists do?
Clinical Provides Psychotherapy administers and interprets psychological tests
Counseling Help with everyday issues (e.g. family, career)
Developmental Research and teach development with age
Cognitive Research and teach mental processes (e.g memory)
Social Research and teach how others affect us human interaction
Personality Research and teach individual differences
Physiological Research and teach brain and brain/body interaction
Industrial/ Organizational Apply psychology to the work place
Sport Apply psychology to improve athletic performance
School Applies psychology to improve development of kids
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A Research Finding About Love
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A Research Finding About Love

• The catch!

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The Hindsight Bias

• The I knew it all along phenomenon
• Overconfidence that you could have predicted the
  results of a study

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Popular Versus Scientific Psychology

• Popular Psychology
• Intuition
• Conflicting
• Right on or dead wrong?

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Popular Versus Scientific Psychology

• Popular Psychology
• Intuition
• Conflicting
• Right on or dead wrong?
• Scientific Psychology
• Skepticism
• Humility
• SCIENTIFIC METHOD