PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Falsifiability, Scientific Method

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Almost everyone has misinterpreted someone else"s meaning in a conver- sation. First, psychology involves the study of behaviour that, broadly defined, can include perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. Second, psychologists employ the scientific method in their work. On these grounds, we can define psychology as the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. the study of mental processes and behaviours. Concerned with empirically examining the mind and behavior and determine how each is influenced by the psychobiology of the organism as wel as the effects of the external env. Became experimentl science in the 19th century: define psychology and describe the goals and levels of analysis psychologists use. Psychology is the study of mental processes and behaviour. The goals of psychology are to describe, explain, predict, and control behaviour and mental processes.