PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Naturalistic Observation, Dementia, Behaviorism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Topics include: introduction: what is psychology, history of psychology and its legacy, scientific research: statistics and introduction to nervous system, biology and developmental psychology. What is psychology, history of psychology and its legacy. You want to know why people behave the way they do, how they think, remember and make decisions. Because this is most of the quantity of the quality of your life; how other people are believing things, choosing things, deciding to do things. Overwhelmingly what contributes most a person"s meaning, happiness, mental and physical health is: relationships to other people. You want to understand yourself better, especially your mind. Your mind: most familiar and most mysterious to you. You want to help people and that may require a more scientific understanding how they function. People suffer psychologically and to different levels and maybe you want to levitate suffering. Maybe you are into altered states of consciousness and you want to understand better.