BIOL-108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Popular Psychology, Mental Disorder, Behaviorism
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Try to define psychology: scientific study of the, mind: internal states and processes, thoughts and feelings, cannot be seen directly. Infer by observations and measurable responses (cid:862)ope(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts(cid:863: brain, behaviour: directly observable actions and responses. What is a psychologist: cli(cid:374)i(cid:272)al psy(cid:272)hologist: (cid:373)ost popula(cid:396) (cid:862)psy(cid:272)hologist(cid:863); (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h, diag(cid:374)ose a(cid:374)d t(cid:396)eat (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal disorder in public or private practice, counselling psychologist: specialize for schools, death, marriage isolated problems. Most psychologists study brain mind and behaviour with different subfields: experimental psych: basic research, normally in lab, note that other subfields use experiments, developmental psychology: lifespan within and between individuals. Science: gathering and evaluating evidence about testable questions. Psychology is a science: science is a process of collecting and evaluating evidence, systematic: evidence collected and evaluated to rules and conditions, empirical evidence is gained through experience and observation. Knowledge-- observation- test/refine/control observations - accept/ refine/discard: science is a self correcting process, empiricism= knowledge should be acquired through observation. Progress at science is that there is change.
