Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Individualism, Mary Whiton Calkins, Terror Management Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Look for the big picture - how does this fit into everything. Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and the factors that influence it, psychology is whatever psychologists do. Basic research: the quest for knowledge purely for its own sake. Applied research: the quest from information designed to solve specific practical problems. Jigsaw program: a program that requires children to cooperate with one another rather than compete against each other - example: robbers cave. Perspectives: vantage points for analyzing behaviour and its biological, psychological and environmental causes. Mind-body dualism: the belief that the mind is a spiritual entity not subject to the physical laws of the body. Monoism: holds that the mind is not a separate spiritual entity from the body. Most modern scientists hold the view that mind and body are one. Repression: mechanism protecting us by keeping anxiety-arousing impulses in the unconscious depths of the mind. Behavior can be explained on at least 3 different levels.