My list of important parts of the text: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution: Because everyone is going to change over time differently. Since everyone grows differently, everyone’s psychological state will be different too.

Gene-environment interactions: Everyone has different genetics and how they interact with each other I can imagine has a huge effect on someone’s feelings and behavior.

Figure 3.9A in Neuron Structure: The nervous system overall seems to be a big part of psychology. The picture looks clear and is a good depiction of the process of a neurotransmitter that’s not too complicated.

Figure 3.20 in Lobes of the Brain: After skimming I learned that each lobe has its own essential function and in the frontal lobe is something called the somatosensory cortex which helps with processing sensory information. The picture looks like it is helpful to know how much space in the brown is between each part of the body.

The Midbrain and Hindbrain: It could include information about the whole brain from the front to the back.

Brain Imaging: I think there is a lot of information that comes from imaging of one’s brain so this section could have a really good insight of what kind of information and how important it is.

Athletes and Anabolic Steroids: This one interests me the most because I am an athlete so I want to know the effect steroids have on the body.

The example that went with this about the microphones reminds me of videos I see on social media where sports players get mic'd up and either their team doesn't know or someone secretly mic's them up and they don't know. This video I linked is of Zach Pickens from the Chicago Bears mic'd up at a game without knowing. I think this could be an example of naturalistic observation if they were trying to study something in particular. For example, they could be measuring how many times someone says a certain phrase in a day. https://www.tiktok.com/@espn/video/7278120784881585450?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7392717372652783135

This is tricky for me. Later it also says that this belief would contradict Wundt's idea of structuralism. It's tricky for me to understand if these two ideas can both be correct or if one of them is a better principle.

This comment surprises me! It surprises me because psychology I see as now a women-dominated career. It is surprising to me that it wasn't earlier as well because of the present traits females were supposed to have during that time like being empathetic, sensitive, and nurturing. Those are all traits that psychologists tend to be seen as having. However, since women weren't able to have careers in the past, I could see how it was men dominated.

This is so interesting to me. It's interesting because I want to know what all of the divisions are. I didn't know there could be that many divisions just in psychology.

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