PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Attachment Therapy, Forensic Psychology, Doctor Of Psychology
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Study of the brain, thinking, thoughts, and behavior. The scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. Depression can have different levels which can relate to genetics but can also come from the environment we are in and our social interaction with others. Challenges of psychology: behavior is multiply determined, or behavior is produced by many factors, we cannot explain behavior with a single variable, example: school shootings c. i. Can"t be said because there are so many different factors: different factors work together, psychological influences are rarely independent of each other. Individual differences: variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior: people influence each other, reciprocal determinism we mutually influence each other"s behavior, cultural differences a. In different societies some mental illness just don"t exist or are completely different. The belief that we see the world precisely as it is. We think that because we see the world that we are seeing it accurately.
