PSYC 100 Study Guide - Personality Disorder, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Agoraphobia

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Of them research in neuroscience (perception, learning, memory, language, and thinking), social-personality (how people act in groups), or developmental (childhood growth) Combine scientific training with applied training in the practice of psychology clinical psychology. Behaviour any action that can be observed, recorded and measured. Many psychologists treat people and provide therapy where others have little or no connection. Some work as researches, teachers @ universities. Others work in advertising, communications, business, human resource, government organizations. The pursuit of truth through reason and logic. Early psychologists were often members of the philosophy department as well. The gaining of knowledge through observable facts and experiences. The world can be described through rules generated by observation, quantification and the principle of parsimony. Helmholtz, weber and fechner interested in how our perceptual organs gain information about the world: founded psychophysics . Psychophysicists measured the relationship between the energy in the stimulus and the sensation of the changes in the stimulus.