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Various Psychology Topics

1. When your best friend hears that you are taking a psychology course, she asserts that psychology is simply common sense. Explain why your awareness of both the limits of everyday reasoning and the methods of psychological research would lead you to disagree with your friend's assertion. Make sure to include some specific concepts and scientific methods utilized in psychology in your explanation.

The methods of psychological research are different than a friend's everyday reasoning. This is because, the scientific method serves as the bedrock foundation of psychological research and its methods focus on making sure that the observations on which its claims are based are as objective as possible and that the data on which these claims are based are data that are replicable, reliable and valid (Coon, 2003). Further, claims about human psychology based on psychological research are not just the ideas and experience of one person but are often derived from a systematic body of knowledge built up over the years from objective study by many. On the other hand, every day reasoning is based on the experience and understanding of only one person and people differ both in terms of experience and understanding; thus, my friend's reasoning, even if valid, may not be applicable to those unlike her in these two areas. Second, while Coon (2003) points out that the scientific method, as used in psychology, is certainly subject to errors associated with the difficulty of adequately conceptualizing and measuring psychological phenomena (e.g., emotions, mental disorders, etc.) the everyday reasoning of a friend is necessarily quite a bit more subjective.

2. Many would consider it ironic that men are more likely than women to feel comfortable about having casual sex with multiple partners and yet at the same time more likely to feel jealous rage over a mate's having sex with someone else. How would an evolutionary psychologist explain these gend...

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