PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Murder Of Reena Virk, Naturalistic Observation, Wilhelm Wundt
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), positive institutions and communities (how societies foster civil discourse, stronger families ect. : psychology is the study of behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes, it applies accumulated knowledge to solve problems. Nine areas of psychological research: developmental, social, educational, health physiological, experimental, cognitive, personality, psychometrics. Most people are in social and the least amount are in personality. Applied psychology consists of four areas of specialization: clinical, counselling, education and industrial and organization. Sociohistoical context: cultural views at the time moulded what people thought about, and theories they constructed. Early 1900 was ready for the introduction of scienti c methods rather than consciousness, and so that is the way psychology shifted, now that we are more culturally diverse, it has changed the way psychology is presented. Behaviour determined by multiple causes: governed my the idea of multifunctional causation of behaviour. Behaviour shaped by cultural heritage: heritage is the determinants of behaviour.
