PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Method, Heredity, Heritability

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Dawson W.Clary

Document Summary

Every monday she posts new questions that you have a week to answer them. List: the contemporary approaches to psychology and their approach. There are 7 psychological perspectives: psychodynamic perspective: (frued) Behaviour is explained in terms of inherited instincts, biological drive and attempts to resolve con icts. Focus is on the unconscious ex: boys want to kill dad"s to have sex with the mom: behavioural perspective: Stimulus response learning is very good when teaching people with developmental behaviours and mental disorders how to behave appropriately: cognitive perspective. Human thought and the process of knowing and thinking. Behaviour is a consequence of thinking: sociocultural perspective: Cross-cultural differences in the causes and consequences of behaviour. Get caught up in the reason they do the things they do. Maybe by not understanding a group of people and their culture we did things that were pretty awful. The study of people"s ability to acquire organize, remember and use information they acquire.