my thoughts after reading Chapter 1

When I signed up for Psychology, I knew that it was going to be the study of the mind, but I didn't realize how much of a science it really is. It has a lot to do with formality and methods. I'm not so sure that studying psychology will effect my life all that much. Of course, I'm only a week and a half into the course and my opinion could change. Being that Psychology has a lot of different theories, without there being a definite truth, this class will just force me to make some definite decisions on what I believe to be true when it comes to this area of study.

One thing that I found really interesting was the idea of the placebo effect because I can see how this is true. A lot of times, things like medication and treatments work because we want them to. Our minds are really powerful and can be kind of deceiving. Hindsight bias was also really fun to study. I tried to unscramble the words for just a few seconds before looking at it and didn't really come up with an answer. However, when I looked at the words behind them, I said, "Oh, DUH!! I knew that." That's when I realized exactly what the author was getting at.