PSY-P 101 Lecture Notes - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Falsifiability, Behaviorism

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Assistants: ta: sara driskell, utas: amber kendall, cassie o"hara, grade recorder: melissa ritter wilkinson (contact if don"t have a score on something, experimental participation: gregory smith (questions about experiment requirement) Military: applications human factors the study of psychology, is the study of mind and behavior focus: the individual goal: develop a knowledge base about human and animal behavior study both normal and abnormal behavior, but mostly normal normal: to understand basic processes, necessary to understand what is abnormal abnormal: to understand how basic processes work, huntington"s or alzheimers disease for ex. Can"t treat unless we understand: behavior is a very general term can record from one neuron firing to a whole animal"s behavior the methods of research psychology are unnatural correlation is not causality, ex: warm weather. Psychology: psychology is: psyche inner spirit, ology scientific study, originally the study of the mind, then a behavioral revolution both elements combined to form psychology, a science, the study of the individual.

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