PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mary Whiton Calkins, American Psychological Association, Smith College

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Lecture notes 2: psychological science crosses levels of analysis. Behaviour can be analysed on many levels from chemical processes occurring in the brain to how culture influences one"s behaviour. Biological: how the physical body contributes to mind and behaviour, as in the neurochemical and genetic processes occurring in the body and brain. Individual: differences on personality and in the mental processes that affect how people perceive and know the world. Social: how group contexts affect people"s ways of interacting and influencing each other. Cultural: the influence of culture on people"s behaviours: we are often unaware of the multiple influences on how we think, feel and act. Some factors influence us at an unconscious level and leave us without knowledge of them. Events can prime (activate) our minds so that we act in response to the priming stimuli even though we don"t even know that we are being influenced.