PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Classical Conditioning, Psychopathology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1X03
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Different types of method of research to study and test on development. Psychology mental health/freud counselling: a mode to understand individual thoughts + behaviour. Research learning &memory, cognition, social psychology, personality and psychopathology. Uses scientific method to ask questions about human behaviour. Levels of analysis: any theory must be able to generate testable questions, these questions can be generated from different levels of analysis. Exp: infant and mother"s different perspective onto a certain question. [dog conditioned with salvation and sound and food sources: a type of classical conditioning] Neuroscience: psychological process occurring in the brain. Social psychology: - influence of the individual on a group. Psychologists often have to deceive people and create artificial social situations.