PSY 124 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Psychology.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 124
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

B. f skinner theory: humans and animals choose to do things because they get rewards. Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behaviour. The four goals of psychology: description: describe what is going on, what people are doing, describing a room with kids and see what they do, explanation: explain why animals and humans do things. Whys questions: prediction: predicting the future and determine behaviour in future, control: control in a positive sense. When studying why a certain behaviour or mental process occurs, one can study the influences of. Feeling comes from the brain, 3 pounds, very important. Friends, family, culture can impact on people"s behaviour, behaviour a be different when they are with someone else. If you put someone in therapy and it gets better even if it"s talking therapy the brain has changed. A person who has excess of blood was very joyous and musical and always passionate.