PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heart Rate, Iceberg, Psychoanalysis
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3 exams: oct 7, nov 11, december exam week, 2 assignments 8% and 14% and 3% research partcipataion. Humans are the only animals who have the power to adapt to any place ( it was lions too some years back) Where did human beings adaptability and power come from o o o o o. The scieniic study of the mind and behaviour. An academic discipline and major subj;ect of scienicic study in uni/college. Psychology is a science tht tries to igure out how the human mind works, and ulimately how it enables us to do all the remarkable things that we do. Why do human beings do what they do. Psych deals with people and their behavour; how they behave theories, hypothesis. Not about what people are thinking but how people think. Applied psychologists; school, industrical> communicaion, saisfacion improvement, forensic psychologists; criminology, human factors psychologists; apply research to the design of new products (shape, funcion, color)