PSYO 1021 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Memory, Major Depressive Disorder, Psychology
12 Oct 2018
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PSYO 1021
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Fall 2018
PSYO 1021 lecture 1
What is psychology?
Every time you try to explain someone else, that is psychology.
Why study psychology?
- Scientific perspective helps you develop a curiosity for how behavior works
- Makes your more aware of how you and other work
This can help you be a better doctor or even person because it influences how you perceive
your and other people’s thoughts. Can make you understand how a patient feels
Differences between clinical psychology and psychiatry ***** review this section of the
lecture
Psychologist treat your problems of thought and behavior
Psychiatrist conduct lab research on emotion, cognition, learning…and make you more
empathetic.
Sub disciplines of psychology
Cognitive psychology
Study of how we perceive information, how we learn and remember, how we acquire and learn
language, and how we solve problems.
Developmental psychology
Studies how taught and behavior change and show stability in a lifetime. This study believes that
organism change and grow and psychological functions do as well. How do or emotional skills
change as we age ?
Behavioural neuroscience
- Studies the link among the mind, brain and behavior.
- Various disciplines : brain function in learning, emotion, social behavior…
- More popular one is biological psychology that studies all the connections from the
bodily system to behavior and thought (chemical reactions)
Personality psychology
- What makes people unique
- Consistencies of people’s behavior over time and situations
- “do we change or stay the same?’
Social psychology
- The real and imagined presence of others effect on thought, feeling and behavior
- Questions involve racism, why people act aggressively in situation when their usually
calm
Clinical psychology
- Treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and ways to promote mental
health
- Universities, medical setting, or private practice
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PSYO 1021 lecture 1
Counselling psychology : work with less severe disorders ; help healthy people make choices
Health psychology
- Studies the role of of psychological factors in physical health and illness.
- Stress involved in immune function
Educational psychology
- Study how students learn, effectiveness of particular techniques, psychology of
teaching…
Industrial/organizational psychology
- Real world not laboratory
- Focuses on 2 distinct set of problems: industrial side (select people to their job) vs
organizational side (make workers more productive
- Smaller new disciplines : sports psychology and forensic psychology (law and criminal
justice)
Goals of psychology – scientific method
Describe – cram before an exam
Explain – why they study this way
Predict- will not do well
Change – explain why other methods are better
History of psychology
Prehistoric views
Medicine men or women ‘shamen’ would treat the possessed with rituals (mask to frighten)
Trephination: drilling a small hole in someone’s skull to free the spirits, treat a brain injury.
Evidence shows people survived this (skull growth).
Ancient views - from supernatural to psychological
Ancient Egyptians and greek : narcotics to treat pain
Ancient Chinese: made connections between bodily organs and emotions
Native north Americans : plant based substance to treat mental and physical pain
Medieval to modern views
400-1400 CE again associated with supernatural causes that went to an extreme during the
inquisition. Held inquisitions or trials to determine the good from the bad witchcraft practices:
burned at the stake or float test : hands and feet tied and thrown in a river – either drownes or
gets burned at the stake
asylums 16 th
and 17 th
century : first facilities for mentally ills = first attempt to treat but really
just removed them from society (prison). Shakespear called these bedlam
French physician Philippe Pinel 1783 : first practitioner of moral treatment , reforms to treat
them with dignity and respect. North America : Dorothea Dix
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Document Summary
Every time you try to explain someone else, that is psychology. Scientific perspective helps you develop a curiosity for how behavior works. Makes your more aware of how you and other work. This can help you be a better doctor or even person because it influences how you perceive your and other people"s thoughts. Can make you understand how a patient feels. Differences between clinical psychology and psychiatry ***** review this section of the lecture. Psychologist treat your problems of thought and behavior. Psychiatrist conduct lab research on emotion, cognition, learning and make you more empathetic. Study of how we perceive information, how we learn and remember, how we acquire and learn language, and how we solve problems. Studies how taught and behavior change and show stability in a lifetime. This study believes that organism change and grow and psychological functions do as well. Studies the link among the mind, brain and behavior.
