Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 98: Clinical Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Confirmation Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Chapter 1 the science of behaviour. Clinical psychology: study of mental disorders. Cognitive psychology: study of mental processes: examine consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, problem solving, psycholinguistics psychology of language. Biopsychology: biological explanation of behavior: how brain, genes, hormones influence our behaviour. Developmental psychology: human physical, psychological, and social development through the lifespan. Experimental psychology: studies basic processes (learning, sensory systems, perception, motivational states: most involves lab experiments. Industrial- organizational psychology: study of behavior in the workplace. Leadership, teamwork, motivation, performance, etc: help employers find the best employees and evaluate employee performance. Personality psychology: study of personality. Science: systematically gathering and evaluating empirical evidence to answer questions: based on observable facts, need evidence! Empirical evidence: evidence from experience and observation: empirical information is usually casual rather than systematic. Mental shortcuts: we use this to form judgments, ex. ) Judging someone"s personality based on stereotypes. Listening to information that you agree with and ignoring other information: we don"t test our beliefs further.