PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Conscious Mind, Confirmation Bias, Psychology Today
20 Sep 2016
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Topics: definition of psychology, need for psychology, goals, three levels of analysis, history of psychology, psychology"s roots, beginnings of psychology c. Schools of thought in psychology: psychology today, perspective and branches. For example, your psychology professor is a psychologist but doesn"t sit down with a pen and notepad listening to people"s problems. Psychology: the scientific study of mental processes and behaviour: the conscious mind and the way we behave. Behaviour: anything an organism does (directly observable: a lot of disagreement about what should be studied in psychology concerning behaviour. When someone says they hear or see something, we can look at the brain and see what they are likely experiencing. Today we have psychologists who study behaviour and those who study mental processes. We try to infer what is going on while also viewing their behaviour to find out what"s going on in their internal mental state.
