PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hermann Ebbinghaus, B. F. Skinner, Soltyrei
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Psychologists today are exploring perception, memory, creativity, consciousness, love, anxiety, addictions and more. They use state of the art technologies to examine what happens in the brain when people feel anger, recall a past experience, undergo hypnosis, or take an intelligence test. They examine the impact of culture on individuals, the orgins and uses of language, the ways in which groups form and dissolve, and the similarities and ifferences between people from different backgrounds. Psychology: the scientific study of mind and behavior. Mind refers to our private inner experience, the ever flowing stream of consciousness that is made of perceptions, thoughts, memories and feelings. Behavior refers to observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals, the things we do in the world, by ourselves or with others. Psychology is the attempt to use scientific methods to address fundamental questions about mind and behavior that have puzzled people for millennia.
