PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ulric Neisser, Classical Conditioning, Abraham Maslow
2 Oct 2013
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Psy105 | chapter 1 psychology: yesterday & today. One of the major things he did how humans and animals choose the behaviours they re going to engage in (it s not about choice) Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Description describe what people are doing. Explanation why people and animals do what they do. Prediction interested in future, predict what s going to happen in terms of people s behavior in the future. Control changing the way things are to make things better. When studying why a certain behavior or mental process occurs one can study the influences of: The group friends, family, culture (people tend to conform when in groups) (how behavior is shaped by the social & cultural environments) Many myths & ceremonies developed as a way to describe, explain, predict, & control our reality. Philosophy is the study of knowledge & reality. Philosophers posed questions & discussed proposed solutions.
