PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Basilar Membrane, Empiricism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: V W

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Summarize how psychology is relevant to many different professions: identify several fields in which psychologists may work. Clinical psychologists: treating people with mental problems. Psychologists work as professors, researchers, advertising, communications, business and human resources: outline some of the questions psychologists ask. How people think, feel and behave: describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. 5 major broad categories of employment for psychologists: research, teaching, service provision, administration, and consulting. Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety. Addictions and substance use and abuse (e. g. smoking, alcohol, drugs) Cognitive functions such as learning, memory, problem solving, intellectual ability and performance; Social and cultural behaviour and attitudes, the relationship between the individual and the many groups of which he or she is part (e. g. work, family, society) Outline the philosophical roots of psychology: define empiricism and rationalism.