PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brenda Milner, Wilhelm Wundt, Donald O. Hebb

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

Document Summary

Applied psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with everyday practical problems. Behavior: any overt or observable response or activity by an organism. Behaviorism: theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior. Clinical psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. Cognition: the mental process involved in acquiring knowledge. Critical thinking: the use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome. Culture: widely shared customs, beliefs, values norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. Empiricism: the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. Evolutionary psychology: examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a species over a course of many generations. Functionalism: based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather than its structure.