PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Examples of the effects of our environment on our behavior: Heat; no matter how motivated you are, chances are if you are unbearably hot you will lose energy and in turn be less motivated. Other people; it can go more than one way. If there is a crowd watching you rather than no one, you can either be much more motivated and more willing to work harder, or you can become shy and less likely to perform. You cannot gain a clear assessment of anything without observing all three components. Psychodynamic --> the place to look for an understanding of human actions and behaviors is inside the person (in the unconscious mind). When you look for treatment of psychological problems, this type of psychologist would be the one you would see. Behavioral --> opposed to psychodynamic; believed that freud and his colleagues were. stupid and that there was no validity to their ideas.