psych approaches, 0.1, 0.2

curiosity

desire to learn more, open minded to trying different things

skepticism

questioning attitude towards claims of knowledge, truth, or certainty; testing it, not accepting everthing

humility

awareness of your own weakness, errors, and mistakes and the potential of them; willingness to admit your wrong

critical thinking

not auto accepting argument and conclusions, digging deeper; deeply analyzing, challenging conclusions with evidence

hindsight bias

tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; “I knew it all along”

overconfidence

thinking you know more that you do

confirmation bias

seeing or having something that supports your belief, even seeking it out; ignoring research/evidence that falsifies it

perceiving order in random events (apophenia)

we are prone to pattern seeking, commonsense thinking is flawed

behaviorism

observing behaviors, like learned behaviors, focusing on observable actions, human behavior and how it can be shaped, all behaviors we have are learned from the world around us; dismisses internal mental states

psychodynamic, psychoanalytical approach

your childhood influences your unconscious thoughts which affect your actions; “the iceberg” like clay from OTH, past trama and experiences

humanistic approach

focusing on free will and decisions, independent growth through your choices; you as an agent so you have control, you can make actions, and you can improve; focuses on inner feeling and self-improvement

cognitive approach

focused on thinking and mind proceses like reasoning, problem solving, and memory, like how we think and how these processes lead to our actions

evolutionary approach

psychological adaptations that helped our species survive (natural selection) explain/influence behaviors we have now

sociocultural approach

your cultural and social environment you grow up in influence behavior, the people around you and all the stuff we make up to interact with our environment, social context influencing our behavior

biological approach

how the brain works, genetics and brain like the chemicals, how parts of the body affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

biopsychosocial approach

life, mind, and other people, combination of all body, mind and people around you stuff influence your mind; biological, social, and psychological factors to understand how people think, feel, and act