Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unconscious Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Psychology

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

Document Summary

What do psychologists do?/ pioneers of psychology/ scienti c method. How do we determine which claims about psychology are valid? (next time: methods/ scan: chapter 2 p. 42-64) - scan means read all and make notes - Names and dates - do not expect to memorize or know the dates. Reading the text: thinking about background information. What is this really about: survey titles, headings, etc. Titles and structure to create a framework: outline the chapter - summarize the notes. Review: levels of explaining behaviour - cultural/ individual/ biological schools of psychology - functionalism(genetic basis of behaviour)/ psychodynamic(unconscious mind)/ behaviourism. Cognitive behaviourism - allows you to process and think/ behaviourism - does not allow you to think because cannot be analyzed focus on behaviourforget the mind. Discuss how behaviour changes under various conditions. Modern examples: learning theories, behaviour modi cation (treating something, often used in phobias, used to eg. fear of snakes send you to pick up snakes.