[PSYCO104] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 108 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Eric Legge

Document Summary

Many people accept the claim that if first and last letter of word remain intact while rest is a total mess, you can still read it w/o a problem. Psychologists study a tremendous diversity of topics. Psychology scientific study of behavior and the mind. Behavior actions and responses that we can directly observe. First image that comes to mind when people hear psychologists is that of a therapist: this reaction is understandable b/c large number of psychologists work in a subfield called clinical psychology. Many psychologists have no connection with therapy and instead conduct research in other subfields (ex. Cognitive psychology specializes in the study of mental processes: especially from a model that views the mind as an information processor, cognitive psychologists examine such topics as consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. Area within cognitive psychology, called psycholinguistics: psycholinguistics focuses on the psychology of language. Ex) jumbled-word exercise relates directly to psycholinguistics.