PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Clinical Psychology, Empirical Evidence
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You want to know why people behave the way they do, how they think, remember and make decisions. You want to understand yourself better, especially your mind. Maybe you want to improve how your memory works and how you make decisions / liberating yourself from the mind (e. g. : alla(cid:374) pai(cid:448)io"s dual-coding theory) Maybe you want to understand how and why your families messed you up and doomed you to romantic failure trespasses the autonomy and individual freedom, but everything is about the relationship between you and your family. Includes behavior, subje(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, ho(cid:449) people"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) ad or malfunction, consciousness, learning, development. Diversity to the branches of psychology, most psychologist focus on one branch, they all think their branch is the best. Cognitive psychology: how cognition works, problem solving, decision making, etc. Comparative psychology: compare people/culture, how do they work, how much does o(cid:374)es" (cid:272)ulture impact your cognition.
