PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Humanistic Psychology, Natural Selection, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

School of behaviorism embarrassed about the non-science of psychology, things have changed since then science of psychology came up with ideas that weren"t so fluffy and more scientific. Behavior directly observable to others expressions, movements, physiological changes. Mental processes internal experiences that can be observed via inference feelings, perceptions, thoughts. Close-up: 12-13 *not on exam but very useful. Behaviorisms only interested in studying the behavior not the science of it. Freudian psychology freud"s suggestion - there is a lot of processes with the conscious/unconscious mind. To what extent are our traits already set in place at birth. To what extent do our traits develop in response to our environment/experience.