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Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Animal Testing, Ethology, Organism

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greyjellyfish592
17 Nov 2011
School
Western University
Department
Psychology
Course
Psychology 1000
Professor
Nick Skinner

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Tuesday sept 20, 2011: definition of psychology, methods of psychology. Definition of psychology psychology is the study of the mind, in a sense of the visible indicators of this said mind". It is the study of mental processes, cognition, thought and thinking. It studies behaviour and responses to the surrounding environment and situation as well as society. It relates to personality as well as mental disorders and abnormalities. The most concise definition is the study of human and animal behaviour. Learning perspectives believe measurements of observations are still valuable. Reaction (behaviour) is a function of stimuli (the r-s model). Then the more complicated cognitive perspective model was developed, Stimulus organism response s-o-r model, which means the response is a function of the stimuli and the organism. Animal testing in psychology- 5 reasons for studying animals page 67. To conduct basic research on a particular species.

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