PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gustav Fechner, Tabula Rasa, Psychophysics
24 Sep 2016
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People have always been curious about how human behaviour works. Psychology is the science of studying mental processes and behaviour: mental processes: activity of our brain when we are engaged in thinking, processing information, and using language. Includes thinking, imagining, and remembering: behaviour: our observable actions, and make inferences, or guesses, about what was happening in the mind. Primary method for exploring mental processes in the past. Brain imaging has made studying the brain and mental processes easier. Four general goals when studying psychology: description: try to describe the things they observe, explanation: telling what, when, where and how isn"t always enough. All of our actions and thoughts involve complex activation and coordination of a number of levels: level of the brain. Consider the neural (brain cell) activity that occurs during the transmission and storage of information. Genes that form a person: level of the person. Analyze how the content of mental processes forms and influences behaviour.
