PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Luigi Galvani, James Mill, Action Potential

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Psychologists engage in research, teaching, counseling, psychotherapy etc . A science with a special focus on behavior. Primary emphasis is on discovering and explaining the causes of behavior. Psychology comes from 2 greek words: psukhe meaning breath" or soul" and logos meaning word" or reason". Events that cause other events (including behavior) to occur are called casual events. Psychology: the scientific study of the causes of behavior, the application of the finding of psychological research to the solution of problems. The word levels refer to a common choice of causes to study and methods of research to use. A reason for studying behavior is that human behavior is the root of many of the worlds problems (ie. poverty, crime, overpopulation ) Research psychologists differ from one another in 2 principal ways: 1. In the types of behavior they investigate, and 2. Physiological psychology examines the physiology of behavior.