PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seat Belt, Neuroimaging, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

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Describe- iden. fy and de ne what the behaviors are and what a:ributes they serve. Explain: why behaviors occur in individuals in di erent environments. Predict: when, how and why behaviors are likely or unlikely to occur. Modify: try to learn how to modify someone"s behavior. In uence or control behavior, by knowing its causes, to enhance human welfare. Studying how the mind works at a very basic level. Like, how to the mind works to produce memory. Fire engine color change is an example (explained in lecture 2). Applied to a human problem to make the world a be:er and easier place to live. Example 2: cabs that had rear light had 40% less chances of facing accidents. Much harder to iden. fy the suspects compared to doing a serial line up where each suspect goes at a . me. The let side of the brain interprets things on the let and the right hemisphere interprets those on the right.