Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Cultural Psychology, Ethology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Behaviour: factors: environmental norms, value system. Individual & psychological learning, cognitive processes: biological neural, hormones. Psychology (cid:498)long past but short history(cid:499: scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Psychobiology neuroscience, ethology: function, significance of behaviour how behaviour helps us adapt, unconscious experience, unresolved conflict the mind (subjective, ex. Importance of personality: psychodynamic, behaviourism, contrast with psychodynamic approach, measurable behaviour and changes under various conditions, environmental, ex. Learning theories, behaviour modification: gestalt tradition, cognition: perception, experience, whole > sum of parts, biological & environmental, ex. Cognition, information processing: humanistic, biological, values & choice, human potential, self-actualization, biological and environmental, ex. Carl rogers" therapy, the (cid:498)self(cid:499: neural and chemical basis of behaviour, focus on the brain, biological, ex. September 9, 2014: culture, norms, group process, environmental, ex. Cross cultural psychology, issues in development, disorders, thinking. Types of psychologists: 43% clinical, 11% counselling, 8% experimental (explicitly in a lab setting, 7% school (counselling in school, 7% industrial/organizational (job situations)