Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethology, Behaviorism

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

Document Summary

Room 6316, ssc (corner of oxford and elgin) (go to back of building, take elevator to loor 6) atkinson@uwo. ca. First test (midterm 20%): saturday october 18, 2014 (9-11 am) Final 10% is connect quizzes (every chapter has a quiz) and group discussions from ask mike. The scieniic study of behaviour and the mind. People have always been interested in the way the mind works. Something beyond the individual that efect their behaviour. Look at society (maybe society values a speciic behaviour) Look at the environment (ie. someone might be more angry when they are in an uncomfortable temperature) What is happening to this person based on their upbringing. What is their learning process? (ie tv) What pisses one persons of, may not trigger someone else. This is very individual and is based on how one person has been brought up. All of these explanaions are interacive and they all are part of the explanaion of ones behaviour.