PSYC 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 220 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Applied psychology branch of psychology concerned with every day, practical problems. Behaviour refers to any overt (behaviours or actions that we can actually observe or measure) response or activity by an organism. Behaviourism is a theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behaviour. Clinical psychology the branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge (thinking or conscious experience) Critical thinking is the use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome. Culture refers to the widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. Empiricism is the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. Ethnocentrism the tendency to view one"s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways.