PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Broca, Wilhelm Wundt, Social Perception
11 Oct 2018
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Psychology is the study of the brain, mental processes, and the behaviour and relations between them: brain mental processes and states, mind subjective experiences, perceptions, memory and thoughts, behaviour actions that can be observed. Why study psychology: describe behaviour, understand and explain behaviour, predict behaviour, control and influence behaviour. There are many different ways to approach psychology: social. Individual differences, perception and cognition, behaviour: biological. When did psychology start: established the first psychological laboratory in 1879. History is often shown from one perspective and may be distorted over time. How do we gain knowledge: nature knowledge is mostly present at birth (nativism) Noam chomsky (nativist) developed the hypothesis that we have a critical/sensitive period for language acquisition. Whilst the ability to learn a language may be inbuilt, if this device is not activated" within a certain period in childhood learning a language comprehensively may become harder if not impossible.
