Psychology as a user manual for your brain

One of my goals for Introduction to Psychology is to present psychology in a way that non-major students in Gen Z will relate to. The brain-computer metaphor has a long history in psychology, and I thought I could frame Intro as a sort of user manual for the brain. 

Now, I've never read a user manual for a piece of software. Ever. And I bet that's true for my students as well. Normally I just figure it our as I go along (or maybe watch a video explainer). But once in a while I discover either a faster or more efficient way of doing something (a "hack"), or I find out there is some way to do things I thought were not possible (a "cheat code"). 

So I started to think that the chapters in the text could be framed in terms we use to describe how we deal with the software and hardware of our computing devices. Here is a list of the terms I came up with and the topics/chapter titles from an Intro text:

Some aspects of your brain’s operating system	Attention and memory
More about your brain’s user interface	Consciousness and sleep
Mods	Hypnosis, meditation, drugs
Troubleshooting	Abnormal
Known bugs	Abnormal
Software and hardware fixes	Treatment
Help Center	Counseling Center and meditation
FAQs	What is psychology/science
WWDC2019	Evolutionaryand cultural psyc
Inside Neuron Valley	Scientific method
Beta testing	Ethics
Hardware	Brain and neuron
Developers and users	Nature/nurture
Input	S & P
Big data	Classical conditioning
Adaptive programming	Operant conditioning
Storage errors	Memory
Programming languages	Thought, schemas, problem solving
CPU types and clock speed	Intelligence
Brain1.0	Child development
Legacy systems	Adult development
More mods	Emotion
Upgrades and a cheat code	Motivation and sex
Social media	Social psyc
PC vs. MAC vs. LINUX	Psychodynamic, humanistic, trait
Settings	Personality

 

I plan to explain the connection between the terms I chose and the ideas from class during the brief wrap-up I do at the end of each class.

Please let me know if you think there are more appropriate computer/software terms than the ones I chose.