Psychology 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 228 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Applied research: designed specifically to solve practical problems. Goal = to describe how people behave and identify the factors that influence or cause types of behaviour. Behaviour genetics: the study of how behavioural tendencies are influenced by genetic factors. Behaviour modification: techniques aimed at decreasing problem behaviours and increasing positive behaviours by manipulating environmental factors. Behavioural neuroscience: examines brain processes and other physiological functions that underlie our behaviour, sensory experiences, emotions and thoughts. Behavioural perspective: focuses on the role of the external environment in governing our actions. From this perspective our behaviour is jointly determined by habits learned from previous life experiences and by stimuli in our immediate environment. Behaviourism: a school of thought that emphasizes environmental control of behaviour through learning. Biological perspective: examines how brain processes and other bodily functions regulate behaviour. Biopsychology: focuses on the biological underpinnings of behaviour. Examine how brain processes, genes and hormones influence our actions, thoughts and feelings.