PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologies

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Document Summary

Psychology: the discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism"s physical state, mental state, and external environment. It is important to be able to separate useful information from false information or . Real psychology (different from psychobabble or popular psychology ( pop psych ) is more complex and is based on scientific research and empirical evidence. Psychology included in many tv shows and movies but are not a true reflection of what psychology is. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) Consists of a checklist of symptoms that can lead to diagnose someone. The guide evolves over time to become more objective and quantifiable (removal of homosexuality to add ptsd) How to think critically and creatively about psychology. Critical thinking is not merely negative thinking but a way to separate what is true and what is false and what you should believe about psychology.