PSYCH101 Final: Lecture Content of Psychology 1) Describe the basic model of psychology and the three major variables. 2) Describe the ABC's of psychology. Perspectives of Psychology 3) Describe the different perspe

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Content of psychology: describe the basic model of psychology and the three major variables, describe the abc"s of psychology. Perspectives of psychology: describe the different perspectives and explain their focus on human experience. Science of psychology: describe the goals of science, explain the scientific method of refinement, describe the criteria of science, describe and explain correlational and causal relationships among variables. Person -> behaviour -> outcome: variables in the environment, person engages in behavior. Depending on your study you"ll focus on one of the three cariables more than the others. There is always an environment influencing us: could chance the behavior of the person engaging in it, changes context, could stop you from doing something or it could start you doing something you normally wouldn"t. Always a person interacting with environment, produces a behavior, certain outcomes occur. Inter-related: tripart-type model, a affect (emotions, mood, b behaviour, c cognition (thoughts, ideas, decisions, beliefs)