PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Unconscious Mind, Frontal Lobe
5 Dec 2014
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We have the largest geographic range of any land mammal on earth. Human beings are interesting because we radically modify our environments. Our bodies are not powerful, compared to other animals (no special defences or talents. ) But our distinctive power is in our minds. A rough guide to studying the mind. The scientific study of the mind and of behaviour. An academic discipline a major subject of scientific study in colleges and universities, aimed at discovering how the mind works and what determines how people behave. A profession which applies the results of scientific study to the healing of individuals (adapting people to the world), making the world easier for people to function within (adapting the world to people), and the betterment of humankind. So, psychology is a science that tries to figure out how the human mind works, and ultimately, how it enables us to do all the remarkable things that we do.
