PSYCH101 Lecture 1: PSYCH101 - Intro

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

The abc"s of psychology: affect: feelings, emotion, mood, behaviour: actions, responses, performance, cognition: thoughts, decisions, attitudes. The basic model: person behaviour outcomes: occur in an environment providing the context for and influence from the person. Psychodynamic (person: sigmund freud (first psychiatrist, focused on unconscious awareness; what"s going on in the person", personality and motivation fueled by conflict between conscious and ii. iii. iv. v. unconscious forces. Behaviourism (behaviour: b. f. skinner / john watson, treat humans like any other object; scientific approach, overt responses, theories based on observations. Goals of science are to understand phenomenon explain what we understand predict and control based on our understanding and explanations. Theory process: develop theory form hypothesis carry out observation (testing) analyze results refine theory. Science of psychology: observation: na ve theories, goals: understand, explain, predict, and control, refinement: from theory to theory, criteria: empirical, replicable, falsifiable, associations: correlation and causation.