PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Leta Stetter Hollingworth
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Psychology is the scienti c study of behavior and mental processes. All sub elds have a common goal: understanding behavior. The different sub elds of psychology allow psychologists to explain the same behavior in multiple ways. Behavioral neuroscience is the sub eld of psychology that mainly examines how the brain and the nervous system - but other biological processes as well - determine behavior. Experimental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world. (the term experimental psychologist is somewhat misleading: psychologists in every specialty area use experimental techniques. ) Several subspecialties of experimental psychology have become specialties in their own right. One is cognitive psychology, which focuses on higher mental processes, including thinking, memory, reasoning, problem solving, judging, decision making, and language. What are the sources of change and stability in behavior across the. Developmental psychology studies how people grow and change from the moment of conception through death.
