PSYC 101 Chapter Notes -Psych, Job Satisfaction, Cognitive Neuroscience

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Barbara Cox

Document Summary

Psychology- the scientific study of the causes of behaviour; also the application of the findings of psychological research to the solution of problems. A broad discipline composed of researchers who study the causes of behaviour & practitioners who apply the findings of research psychologists to problems related to people"s behaviour. Mind described as a characteristic of a functioning brain whose ultimate function was to control behaviour. Ultimate goal of research in psychology is to understand human behaviour- explain why people do what they do. Learn how to categorize & measure behaviour so that different psychologists in different places are observing the same phenomena. Identify the causes of behaviour: know what caused the behaviour, then we have explained it. Causal events- events that cause another event (including behaviour) to occur. Though looking at the same behaviour, psychologists may study different categories of causal events or. Levels of explanation refers to the different types of causes that are used to explain behaviour.