Chapter 1 In Your Everyday Life

Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

  1. How would you have defined psychology before taking this class?

  2. Imagine that someone claims she can interpret your dreams or can speak to the dead. How could critical thinking help you check her claims?

  3. Which of the four big ideas is most interesting to you? What was it that attracted your attention to that idea?

  4. What about psychology has surprised you the most so far?

  5. If you could conduct a study on any psychological question, which would you choose? How would you do it?

  6. What other questions or concerns do you have about psychology?

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