PSYC 1001 Study Guide - James Gleick, Parallel Computing, Language Acquisition Device
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What is psychology: to explain why people do what they do, the scientific study of the causes of behaviour & mental processes, also, the application of the findings of psychological research to the solution of problems, can be said to be both a natural science and a social science in both cases, using the scientific method to study human nature (i. e. human physiological functioning the natural sciences ) and human behaviour & mental processes (the social sciences ) Neo analytical: cognitive, behavioural neuroscience, evolutionary, developmental, biological. Physiological: comparative, cross cultural, clinical, behaviour analysis play games, cognitive psychology. Experimental research: manipulating a variable and measuring the impact of that manipulation on another variable, when a variable is manipulated, and yields observable results, there can be a certain level of assurance that there is both correlation and causation, experimental research has to pass ethic standards.
