PSYC 107 Lecture 1: Psychology 107 Notes test 1 notes
5 Oct 2016
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Study of behavior and mental processes with the goal of applying the resultant knowledge in the service of human welfare. Has the goal of serving others and caring about others. Subfields of psychology: cognitive- study of cognition- sensation, perception, learning and memory. How we think and remember: engineering- how people interact with things. (interact with software. What makes you unique and like other people: industrial/organizational- study questions about people at work. Leadership, job satisfaction (why people quit), training, assessment of employees, mistreatment of people in the workplace: developmental- how people grow and change over time. What they can think and do: community- working with the community to develop systems to help prevent mental illness and other problems. Works with low income, build after school programs, help show values and education: clinical and counseling- intervening when someone has an adjustment. (therapy). Counseling do small problems (testing anxiety, add: educational- better classroom systems so people learn better.
