PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychological Science, Mental Disorder, Cognitive Psychology
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Prejudice not only influences the beliefs and behaviours of the prejudiced person but also has strong negative psychological effects on the targets of prejudice, whose behaviours are shaped in part by others belief about them. Amygdala: it activates when detects threats/negative emotional response. Psychological science: the study of mind, brain, and behaviour. Behaviour describe a wide variety of actions, from the subtle to the complex, that occur in all organisms. Western: focus the forefront, tend to miss the fores for the trees; more analytic,, break complex ideas into simpler components, categorize information, and use logic and rule to explain behaviour; individuality. Upper class middle class lower class, we assume the higher the class has more knowledge than the others. Al-kindi cognitive therapy john stuart mill system of logic(1843) Wihelm wundt (1879) established the first psychology laboratory and institute: introspection: a systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts.
