Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychophysics, Aaron T. Beck, Experimental Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Wolfe/ Quinlan

Document Summary

The nature of psychology: psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mind. Behaviour refers to actions and responses that we can observe. Mind refers to internal states and processes (ex. thoughts and feelings): clinical psychology: the study and treatment of mental disorders, cognitive psychology specializes in the study of mental processes. They examine processes as consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. An area of cognitive psychology is psycholinguistics, studies the psychology of language: psychology"s diversity: Biopsychology: focuses on the biological underpinnings of behaviour (ex. brain process, genes, hormones, etc. ) Developmental psychology: examines human physical, psychological, and social development across a lifespan (ex. world of infants, parenting styles, etc. Experimental psychology: focuses on such basic process as learning, sensory systems, perception, and motivational states. Industrial-organizational (i/o) psychology: examines people"s behaviour in the workplace. Personality psychology: focuses on the study of human personality.