Bono Tim, Frederick Matthew. 101 Things I Learned in Psychology School

Crown, 2023. — 186 p. — ISBN 9780451496768.Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors. It provides an orienting point for many professional careers, including international relations, public health, social work, clinical counseling, brain research, organizational behavior, business, and advertising. This book not only provides an introduction to this vast field but also tells you how to survive and thrive in the psychology curriculum. Written by an experienced professor, author, and expert consultant on mental health and happiness, 101 Things I Learned in Psychology School is for students as well as beginning clinicians, social and public health workers, and others interested in understanding why we think, feel, and act as we do.Psychiatry leans toward nature. Psychology leans toward nurture.
A psychologist is a statistician.
The type of question determines the type of research.
A sample must represent those not in the sample.
Seek concrete answers, not merely quantitative answers.
A 7-point scale is really a 5-point scale.
Subjectivity is more objective when you have a lot of it.
Positive isn’t good. Negative isn’t bad.
Most phenomena are bell-shaped.
Where there are people, there is bias. Where there is judgment, there is noise.
What is most representative?
Significant is not necessarily important.
Data needs a story.
How to give a research talk
Put your unused ideas in the parking lot.
Gray matter is pink.
The brain is electric.
Neurotransmitters are text messages. Hormones are snail mail.
An extreme case illuminates the ordinary.
Higher thinking happens higher in the brain.
The logical left brain/creative right brain distinction is a myth.
The womb isn’t a neutral environment.
Twins raised apart are more similar than twins raised together.
Infants put things in their mouths. Toddlers put things in categories.
Progression may look like regression.
Theory of mind
If you make it through your twenties, you are probably in the clear.
Trauma can override innate personality.
As nurture failed him
“Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.”