Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affective Forecasting, Mental Scale, Stanley Schachter

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Sarah Stanton

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Narcissism a personality trait marked by an inflated sense of importance, as need for attention and admiration, and a sense of entitlement. Psychology the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie its and it is the profession that applies to the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems. Behavior is any observable response or activity by an organism. Clinical psychology branch of psychology that"s deals with diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. Adjustment the psychological process through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of every day life. Psychology is a science committed to empiricism the idea that knowledge should be acquired through observation. There are two primary research methods in psychology. Stanley schachter: the experiment is a research method in which the investigator manipulates one (independent) variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether any changes occur in a second (dependent) variable as a result.