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Scientific Attitude
Curiosity, skepticism, and humility
Curiosity
does it work / can it be confirmed
Skepticism
Wdym/ How do you know?
Humility
Willingness to follow new ideas and accept that one's own knowledge may be limited
Socrates & Plato
Believed in the separability of mind and body, born with knowledge, and mind continues after death
Aristotle
Knowledge comes from memory and experience, not innate
Descartes
Mind and body are separate, discovered connection through dissecting animals and finding nerves
Bacon
Valued experiment, experience, and commonsense judgment, humans naturally seek patterns and struggle to understand randomness
Locke
Mind at birth is a blank slate, founded empiricism, knowledge comes from experience, observation, and experimentation
Mary Whiton Calkins
First woman to be president of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Margaret Floy Washburn
Earned the first official female psychology Ph.D, second female president of the APA, synthesized animal behavior research
Behavioral Perspective
Focuses on how individuals react to stimuli, emphasizes external factors
Biological Perspective
Considers genetic predispositions and influences from immediate ancestors
Cognitive Perspective
Focuses on thought processes and introspection, emphasizes internal factors
Evolutionary Perspective
Examines long-term biology and behavior through the lens of evolution theory, considers influences from ancestors thousands of years ago
Humanistic Perspective
Believes in free will and innate self-worth, emphasizes individual choice and self-actualization
Socio-Cultural Perspective
Explores how people interact with social groups and how social norms influence behavior
Psycho-dynamic/analytical Perspecitve
Primal drives’, unresolved conflicts (i.e childhood trauma), the *unconscious mind/*hidden feelings.
Hindsight Bias
the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon, only remember when your intuition is reinforced (when you have a ‘gut feeling’ and you’re wrong you tend to not remember that)
Overconfidence Bias
Humans are naturally over-confident in themselves/their own abilities. (tend to not think about other people as three-dimensional)
Perceived Patterns in Randomness
subconsciously make sense of the world around us, random doesn’t make sense to our minds
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