PS101 Midterm: final ps101 exam review
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98% of canadian 16-24 year olds were in the 2009, making them the most connected in the world. 67% of canadian teens say that they participate in social networking. Higher use of facebook leads to more problems in close relationships. Psychology the science of studying mental processes and behaviour. Mental processes the activity of our brains when we are engaging in thinking, processing information, and using language. Behaviour observable activities of an organism, often in response to environmental cues. Psychologists have four goals in mind description, explanation, prediction, control. Humans are shaped by their social environment and it changes overtime. In the centuries both during and after the renaissance through to associationism, European society underwent a scientific revolution: a spiritual worldview which had dominated for centuries, was increasingly replaced by a view of the world based on mathematics and mechanics. Francis bacon is regarded as the creator of empiricism: the view that all knowledge originates in experience.
