The Cool Thing About Psychology

While psychologists may not be good at explaining why we do things, they are good at coming up with experiments that show how cool God made human beings. Here is an example. The observation that going through doorways causes us to forget “what I was going to do.” The title is misleading, however. They don’t show us why going through a doorway makes us forget, they only show us that going through a doorway has something to do with forgetting. They observe behavior, then claim they are explaining it, but don’t really. Notice all the words like “suggests,” “seem,” “likely,” and “may” in the next to last paragraph. Then, in the last paragraph, they act like they have proven their point and know what is going on. Still, “forgetting what you went in there for” being related to going through a door is a pretty cool observation.