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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.
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      Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 16
       
      Falsifiability + Popper
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      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
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      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.
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      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.
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  • 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,”
Daryl Bambic

6 Scientific Reasons Why You Should Consider Not Smoking Weed On A Regular Basis - Coll... - 0 views

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cannabis brain psychology

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  • They activate cannabinoid receptors that already exist in our body, and our bodies themselves actually produce compounds called endocannabinoids
  • Creating oil from the plant or eating the plant is the best way to absorb cannabinoids. Smoking also alters the plant molecules; when cannabis is heated and burnt it changes the chemical structure and acidity of the THC, which in turn negates its therapeutic value.
  • compromised dopamine system
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  • 16 was the average age these individuals started smoking, and they had not stopped since.
  • already show signs of psychotic illness do experience adverse effects from smoking marijuana.
  • smaller volume of gray matter in their orbitofrontal cortex, which is usually associated with addiction.
  • depleting their gray matter
Daryl Bambic

It's Hard to Study Marijuana's Medical Benefits When It's Illegal - The Atlantic - 0 views

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cannabis brain marijuana medical psychology

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  • It's a catch-22 manufactured by the Drug Enforcement Agency: marijuana is illegal because the DEA says it has no proven medical value, but researchers have to get approval from the DEA to research marijuana's medical value.
Daryl Bambic

Why Kids Care More About Achievement Than Helping Others - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Empathy activates conscience and moral reasoning, improves happiness, curbs bullying and aggression, enhances kindness and peer inclusiveness, reduces prejudice and racism, promotes heroism and moral courage and boosts relationship satisfaction. Empathy is a key ingredient of resilience, the foundation to trust, the benchmark of humanity, and core to everything that makes a society civilized.
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      Daryl Bambic on 18 Dec 16
       
      Do you agree that empathy is the key ingredient to the individual's happiness?
  • parents value achievement and happiness over empathy and caring.
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    Why Kids Care More About Achievement Than Helping Others https://t.co/5EkY8AKFdv Empathy is core to civilized society #edwrdsb #wrdsblearns
Daryl Bambic

Decisions Are Emotional, Not Logical: The Neuroscience behind Decision Making | Big Think - 0 views

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emotion decision making neuroscience

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  • He studied people with damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated.
  • they couldn’t make decisions.
  • emotions are very important for choosing. In fact even with what we believe are logical decisions, the very point of choice is arguably always based on emotion.
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