PS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wilhelm Wundt, Tabula Rasa, René Descartes
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Psychology: the science of behaviour and mental processes. Therapy = clinical psychologists, licensed doctoral degree (phd, edd, psyd) Basic research (experimental): involves seeking new knowledge and exploring and advancing general scientific understanding (e. g. animals, sensory, computer modelling, cellular, cognition/behaviour), and. Applied research: is conducted specifically for the purpose of solving practical problems and improving people"s quality of life (e. g. art therapy, rehabilitation, counselling) All of our thoughts and actions involve complex activation and coordination on 3 levels the brain (neuroscience), the individual (how the content of our mental processes influence behaviour), and groups (the social environment that shapes us) No psychological process occurs solely on one of these levels often all three simultaneously. Psychology starts in the earliest pages of recorded history people have always wondered how others think and behave humans are passionately curious (einstein) Philosophy: the study of knowledge, reality, and the nature and meaning of life.
