PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Donald O. Hebb, Psychoanalytic Theory, Jean Piaget
30 Apr 2012
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Scientific: careful observations and rigorous analysis; test our hunches. Behaviour: observable phenomenon; anything we do, easy because it"s observable. Mental processes: internal, subjective experiences; subjective, create self- reports, what you think about a particular question, interpretation, biased, etc. Socio-cultural explains how we think and behave through influence of other people. Developmental how does the human develop over time; how we grow mentally as we get older; children, infants, adolescents (geriatric) Cognitive internal mental processes; memory, attention. Experimental not specific subject; refers to methods being applied to study various topics; clinical (patients) vs. experimental (study mental processes through experiments) Psychodynamic- influence of unconscious, mental processes in mind on behaviour; freud. Psychometrics psychological measurement; assessments i. e. iq test. Personality thoughts, feelings, behaviour; individual how people are different from each other. Evolutionary how has behaviour changed; natural selection; evolutionary way of studying mental processes.
