PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Ulric Neisser, Francis Bacon, Classical Conditioning
13 Feb 2013
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Psychology: the study of metal process and behaviours. Mental processes: activities of our brain when engaged in thinking, observing the environment and using language. Behaviour: observable action, and make inference ir guesses about what was happening in the mind. When studying mental processes and behaviour, the following four goal applies: description: describing the things that are being observed, explanation: telling what, where, when and how is sometimes not enough. The question of why? is needed to be answered. Psychological research predicts the condition and effect: condition: we often encounter situation in which we want to either limit or increase certain behaviours or mental processes. Psychology can give advice on controlling behaviours, from how to limit unhealthy stress to how to increase what you remember from a class, and so on. In psychology, analyzing the brain, the individual and the group reveals how we as society functions. The following is the level of analysis in psychology.
