PSY 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Twin, Somatic Nervous System, Neuroimaging

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

The scientific study of the mind, brain, and behaviour. Behaviour is stuff people are doing, actions people are engaging in. Mind- our internal events, our thoughts and feelings, the way we learn things. We (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) fo(cid:272)usi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) o(cid:374)e le(cid:448)el of a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis: social culture influences (social or behavioral level, psychological (mental or neurological level) Involves thoughts, feelings, and emotions: biological (molecular or neurochemical) History of mental disorders, suffered from psychosis (biological) Five main challenges: human behavior is hard to predict. Actions are multiple determined, multiple reasons why this is happening: psychological influences are rarely independent, individual differences among people. Different reactions for things: people influence one another. Presence of other people influence you (reciprocal determinism: behaviour is shaped by culture. Ca(cid:374)(cid:859)t rel(cid:455) o(cid:374) i(cid:374)tuitio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) sense. Common sense can lead us to have false beliefs about ourselves and our world, na ve realism.