Sunday, September 8, 2013

Week 1 - What is Psychology


This week I've learned: 1.) What psychology is. 2.) The many misconceptions of psychology 3.) There are sevel perspective to explaining behavior. You can combine perspectives (ecletic approach) 4.)The main goals of psychology: to describe behavior, to predict behavior, to explain behavior, to control or change behavior 5.) The many ways of researching as a psycholoigst: Naturalistic observation, Case study, Survey, Correlation studies, Experiments 6.)Difference between predictive and casual hypotheses Accomplished: I read chapter 1, completed both discussion posts, wrote a concept/reaction paper, completed the crossword, made a twitter account, made this new blog, and will soon take the quiz. Also had my first volleyball tournament of the season! Can't wait for next week, chapter 2! :)

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