[PSYC 1001] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (42 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Asking questions about why people do the things that they do. And exploring the many ways that psychologists study human behavior in order to answer those questions. The many sub-fields of theory and research within psychology. Theory, research, methods and clinical practice (in section 1002) Psyc1001 focusing on psychology and a natural science. Developing more (and better) questions based on evidence. Understanding the relation between psychological theory (questions) and scientific-based facts. The scientific study of the causes of behaviour and mental process. Psychology is a method to study human nature and behaviour and nature. Finding them in research and using then to treat patients. What"s happening in the body, brain, hormones, personality, etc. In the research guide, we are asking question proposing the human nature and behaviour and well as we are providing a theory that supports it. Empiricism: the beginning of scientific way of asking questions. First to look for the answer of the material world.