PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Luigi Galvani, Substance Abuse, Experimental Physiology
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Study a variety of phenomena including physiological processes within the nervous system, genetics, environmental events, personality characteristics, mental abilities and social interactions. What is psychology? it emphasis on its discovering and explaining the causes of behaviour. A science with a special focus on behaviour. Since brain contains mind and controls behaviour psychology can be study of brain . It is the scientific study of causes of behaviour + application of the findings of psychological research to the solution of problems. First, we must be familiar with the things that people (animals) do. Second, learn how to categorize and measure behaviour so that we can be sure that different psychologists in different places are observing the same phenomena. Third, discover the causes of behaviour we observe events responsible for behaviour"s occurrence. Casual events events that cause other events (including behaviour) to occur. Levels of explanation psychologists who are interested in same behaviour but study different categories of casual events.
