PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Community Psychology, Elder Abuse, Learned Helplessness
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Psychology ask questions about human behaviour not natural science. Collecting knowledge in a systematic and controlled way. It focuses on events repeating and observable: no morals, vales past events e. g, abortion, spanking. Thriving vs. surviving ( focused more on person; helping people survive different environment0. Focus on internal process e. g, memory- receives, process and remember information. Today: psychology is very broad and has many topics and subfields also it overlaps with other disciplines. Traits inherent or developed e. g, intelligence and gender. Obsessive-compulsive disorder id a problem in the orbital cortex: neuroscience. Compulsions start as habits and are rewarded by the anxiety relief they bring: behavioural. Ocd comes from our natural adaptive instinct to control our environment: evolutionary. No ocd is an inherited condition: behavioural genetics. No it"s a sign of unresolved childhood issues: psychodynamic. No, ocd is a matter of mental habits and errors that can be corrected: cognitive.
