Proverbs and Psychology

After reading the first chapter, I found that it gives us a great sense of what is about to come in later chapters. I feel as if this chapter somewhat summarized what we are going to learn later throughout the semester.
In chapter one, we learn that psychology is ultimately the scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior. In psychology, there are many different levels of analysis. In the book, levels of analysis are compared to rungs on a ladder, with factors like genes, all the way to social life. The different "rungs" include molecular level, neurochemical level, neurological level, mental level, behavioral level, and finally the social level.
Psychology, as the book states, is more than just common sense. It goes on to talk about different proverbs. I found this very interesting because I, too, have thought about these contradictions long and hard. So reading about them in a textbook really interested me. For example, "birds of a feather flock together" contradicts "opposites attract." Both are very famous proverbs, and very true, but just totally go against each other.
Seeing is believing is another saying that many people go by, but the book mentions that the opposite, "believing is seeing," is the real truth. This is another thing that I have contemplated over. Reading all of these things that I have wondered about in the past, makes me excited to learn more about psychology, which, as complicated as it seems, is also rather fascinating. Our minds are strange yet wondrous things, and I think everyone ought to know more about how they operate.
Cheers to a hopefully great semester of psychology!