Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethology, Cultural Psychology, Information Processing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

The official start is 1879, in germany as a separate science subject. Definition: the scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Try to understand people in many different ways: explanation of behaviors. Cultural and environmental factors: value system: certain cultures may value aggressiveness for example or maybe the environment (hot, noise,etc) Individual and psychological: learning, cognitive processesfor violence in home=> violence in the future=> aggressive; Biological factors: for example neural, hormonal levels: of aggressiveness for example. Biological can influence the individual and psychological=> cultural & environmental. Focus on the function or significance of behaviours. How does a behaviour or mental process help us to adapt. Level psychological (study of behaviours in a totally natural environment) Modern example: brief psychodynamic therapy, (guy who went to africa to study ethology: lions are unconscious processing (is important according to freud, aggressive, but depends on time/ sex of the lion) whether we know about it or not)