Psychology 1000 Final: Psychology Textbook .pdf

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

Document Summary

Chapter 1 psychology: the science of behaviour. Psychology - the scientific study of behaviour and the factors that influence it. Taking into account biological, individual and environmental factors. Basic and applied science (cid:120) two types of research: basic research: knowledge gained purely for its own sake. The goals are to describe how people behave and to identify factors that influence it. In 1929, invention of electroencephalogram (eeg) allowed researchers to measure electrical activity of large areas of brain (cid:120) Goals of psychology (cid:120) four basic goals: deupic. Importance of perspectives: describe how people and animals behave, explain and understand the causes of the behaviour, predict how people and animals behave under certain conditions. Influence or control the behaviour through knowledge and control of causes sociocultural. Evolution and behaviour (cid:120) darwin"s theory of natural selection demonstrated that inheritable characteristics that increase likelihood of survival will be maintained.