PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Roshan Singh, School Psychology, Clinical Psychology
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Psychology the scientific study of the causes of behaviour; also, the application of the findings of. Chapter 1 notes psychological research to the solution of problems. It comes from 2 greek words, psukhe meaning breath or soul and logos meaning word or reason. The modern meaning of psychology is the science of the mind. This can be misleading as by definition it is the study of behaviour and not literally the mind. Since the brain accommodates both the mind and behaviour it was soon incorporated as the study of the brain. The ultimate goal of research in psychology is to understand human behaviour i. e. to explain why people do what they do. The use of such different levels of explanation is one reason why psychology is such a diverse discipline. Causal event an event that causes another event to occur.
