PSY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Behaviorism, Totalitarianism, Classical Conditioning
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The scientific study of the mind and of behaviour. An academic discipline - a major subject of scientific study in colleges and universities, aimed at discovering how the mind works and what determines how people behave. A profession - which applies the results of scientific study to the healing of individuals (adapting to the world), making the world easier to function (adapting the world to people). Psychology is a science that tries to figure out how the human mind works, and ultimately, how it enables us to do all the remarkable things we do. What psychology has in common with physics, biology, and chemistry: the scientific. Psychology, biology, chemistry, and physics: applying the scientific method at different levels: Two fundamental questions in psychology: psychology is the scientific study of the mind, the brain, and of behaviour. Are we born blank-slates onto which experience writes, or are we born already knowing things.
