PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normal Distribution, Naturalistic Observation, Standard Deviation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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[introduction and history: what is psychology and what do psychologists do?] Identify several fields in which psychologists may work (cid:281)clinical(cid:282) psychologists: diagnosing and treating people with mental disorders. Some physiologists work as researchers and teachers at universities. Applied psychologists: work in advertising, communications, business, and human resources, and governmental and community service organizations. Psychologists either carry out or read and apply research about behavior and mental processes: outline some of the questions psychologists ask. What possible function could this perceptual phenomenon serve: describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Research in neuroscience (perception, learning, memory, language, and thinking) Research in social-personality (how people act in groups) Clinical psychology: related to biology- why human and non-human animals behave the way that they do, include the role of mental processes involved in behavior. [introduction and history: philosophical roots of psychology: outline the philosophical roots of psychology.