PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trepanning, Neuron, Educational Psychology
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Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behaviour. Applied in study of human behaviour, disorders and education and business relations. Mental processes - activity of our brain when we are thinking, experiencing emotions, observing the enviro. and communicating. Description description of specific observation of an individual, group etc. make a hypothesis on such behaviour. (why?) Prediction predict the circumstances under which a variety of behaviours and mental processes to occur. Control desire of decrease or increase of certain behaviours (stress vs. learning abilities) When studying why a certain behaviour or mental process occurs, one can study the influences of: Neural activity (how brain cell activity is different from each individ. ) Emotions, ideas, thoughts (how mental processes form the individ. ) Friends, family, culture (formation of behavior through external sources) humans operate on all three levels simultaneously. Culture - a set of shared beliefs, history and practices that are transmitted across generations.
