Psychology: The Science of Behavior
Move beyond armchair intuition to understand the hidden mechanisms driving human thought, action, and social interaction.
Like Duolingo, but for Psychology: The Science of Behavior. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Psychological Lens and Patterns of the Mind. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Psychology: The Science of Behavior
- Hindsight bias creates an 'I-knew-it-all-along' feeling after seeing data
- Correlations identify relationships but do not prove one variable moves the other
- Psychological results often seem obvious only once the outcome is revealed
- Third variables, like wealth or lifestyle, often influence both correlated factors
- Hindsight bias makes psychological findings feel like 'common sense' only after the results are known.
- Correlation does not imply causation: seeing two behaviors happen together doesn't mean one caused the other.
- The false consensus effect causes us to see our own habits as the 'norm'
- Operational definitions translate abstract traits into observable, timed, or counted actions
- We tend to surround ourselves with similar people, biasing our social estimates
- Clear definitions allow other psychologists to replicate a study exactly
- The false consensus effect leads us to overestimate how much others share our beliefs and behaviors.
- Psychological science uses operational definitions to turn vague concepts like 'happiness' into measurable data.
- Case studies focus on unique individuals like Phineas Gage to reveal brain function
- The 'False Consensus Effect' leads us to overestimate how much others share our beliefs and behaviors.
- Small sample sizes in case studies lack 'generalizability' to the wider population
- Case studies provide deep insight into rare phenomena but cannot be generalized to the whole population.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If a study shows that people who exercise more also sleep better, what does this correlation definitely prove?
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Where Psychology: The Science of Behavior takes you
- 1
The Psychological Lens
- Beyond Common Sense
- The Biological Machinery
- 2
Patterns of the Mind
- How We Process the World
- The Individual in the Group
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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