Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Jean Piaget

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Vicki Olds

Document Summary

Psychology : the scientific study of behavior and the mind. Behaviour: actions and responses we can directly observe i. e. heart rate. Mind: internal states and processes i. e. cannot directly feel a person"s feelings of love but can infer from their behavior (saying i love you ) Clinical psychology: the study and treatment of mental disorders. Examine mental disorders and help people to overcome these disorders. Cognitive psychology : specializes in the study of mental processes. Memory, judgement & decision making, problem solving, mental imagery, attention creativity. Psycholinguistics: an area within cognitive that studies language processes. Biopsychology: focuses on the biological basis of behavior. a. How examine how brain processes, genes, and hormones influence our actions. i. ii. Focuses on how evolution shaped our minds an behaviors. Developmental psychology: examines human physical, psychological, and social development across the entire lifespan. a. b.