Psychology 1000 Final: Psych 1000 Full Textbook Notes (Autosaved)

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

Document Summary

Chapter 1 psychology: the science of behaviour. Knowledge is innate (inherited: focus on heredity factors, nature. Knowledge gained through observation and our senses: experiences, study only what could be observed, nurture. Aristotle-philosopher: father of empiricism, knowledge through experience, environment and upbringing shape cognitive abilities. John locke: nothing can exist within the intellect that did not have its origin in the sense. Psychology = the scientific study of behaviour and the factors that influence it. Taking into account biological, individual and environmental factors. Basic and applied science: 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. Uses principles discovered via basic research to solve practical problems. Goals of psychology: four basic goals: deupic, describe how people and animals behave, explain and understand the causes of the behaviour, predict how people and animals behave under certain conditions.