Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Gestalt Psychology, School Psychology, Operant Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Document Summary

People don"t respond the same way in situations even one person may not respond to one specific situation the same way twice. Psychology is the discipline concerned with behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism"s physical and mental state, and it"s external environment. A pet bear being brought to lecture vs. seeing a bear somewhere on campus. Oh, i"m so depressed today (you"re not depressed, you"re just having a bad day) i have to clean my office before i work i"m ocd (no, you"re procrastinating) Pseudoscience ideas put forth as science that is not (astrology, etc. ) Have a prediction, test it and observe the finding then explain what happened. Prior assumptions concerning data are dangerous: what you bring with you (e. g. , beliefs, values, views) introduce bias. Important to view a problem from more than one perspective. Coming up with a good question is the most difficult part.