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Nick Lavoie

Gabor Mate on Addiction - 0 views

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Gabor Mate psychology addiction brain addict experiences drugs

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  • Nick Lavoie on 09 Apr 13
     
    This site is a very good site because it talks about Gabor Mate's view of addiction and it's told in a very easy manner. This is a reliable source because its a website were a community of people can share and brainstorm knowledge on a common subject, based off readings from certain articles, magazines and blogs. This opens a variety of different insights and ideas to the topic.
  • Nick Lavoie on 09 Apr 13
     
    *sticky note* Drugs are used to escape distress. Addicts are in a way, "self medicating" themselves for common problems like depression and anxiety. This is usually always originates from pain or post experiences.
  • Nick Lavoie on 09 Apr 13
     
    *sticky note* The environment around us is ESSENTIAL in how our brain grows and develops, we need constant emotional support, nutrition and physical security. Without these it leads to addiction and other things like added stress and so on.
Daryl Bambic

1.1 Psychology as a Science | Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition - 1 views

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  • Because values cannot be considered to be either true or false, science cannot prove or disprove them.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 16
       
      Falsifiability + Popper
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      See Popper and why it is important to be able to prove something false.
  • This factual information can and should be made available to help people formulate their values about abortion and incarceration, as well as to enable governments to articulate appropriate policies
  • Although scientists use research to help establish facts, the distinction between values and facts is not always clear-cut. Sometimes statements that scientists consider to be factual turn out later, on the basis of further research, to be partially or even entirely incorrect
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  • A major goal of psychology is to predict behaviour by understanding its causes. Making predictions is difficult, in part because people vary and respond differently in different situations.
  • differences in extraversion, intelligence, self-esteem, anxiety, aggression, and conformity.
  • we cannot always predict who will become aggressive or who will perform best in graduate school or on the job.
  • predictions made by psychologists (and most other scientists) are only probabilistic.
  • behaviour is that almost all behaviour is multiply determined, or produced by many factors.
  • depression is caused by lower-level genetic factors, by medium-level personal factors, and by higher-level social and cultural factors.
  • single cause.
  • are not independent of one another
  • much human behaviour is caused by factors that are outside our conscious awareness,
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), who argued that many psychological disorders were caused by memories that we have repressed and thus remain outside our consciousness.
  • Research demonstrates that individuals who are exposed to highly stressful situations over long periods of time develop more health problems than those who are not
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      "Research demonstrates"...what is wrong with this? Can we know how this study was conducted? What were the variables? Was it correlation or causation?
  • Although science is not perfect, the requirements of empiricism and objectivity result in a much greater chance of producing an accurate understanding of human behaviour than is available through other approaches.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Great psychologists have not used the scientific method and contributed important insights into human behaviour. What role does the unconscious mind play in behaviour?
  • biological influences
  • abilities and characteristics of individual people
  • social groups,
  • cognitive and motivational biases
  • Research psychologists use scientific methods to create new knowledge about the causes of behaviour, whereas psychologist-practitioners, such as clinical, counselling, industrial-organizational, and school psychologists, use existing research to enhance the everyday life of others.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Leave a sticky note for yourself or others with whom you share this page.
  • collect and interpret data in their everyday lives
  • accepting explanations for events without testing them thoroughly may lead us to think that we know the causes of things when we really do not.
  • Empirical methods include the processes of collecting and organizing data and drawing conclusions about those data
  • scientific method as the set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research.
  • Statements that cannot be objectively measured or objectively determined to be true or false are not within the domain of scientific inquiry
  • Values are personal statements such as “Abortion should not be permitted in this country,” “I will go to heaven when I die,”
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