PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Mill, Behavioural Genetics, Psych

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Dean A Tripp

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Psych 100 chapter 1: the science of psychology: psychology is the study of human behaviour, the ultimate goal of psychological research is to understand human behaviour why people do what they do. Causal event-an even which causes another event: psychological research is performed to explain the different types of behaviours analyzing the cause of each. There are 12 fields of psychology we will focus on: Physiological-study of physiology of organism to understand causal events. Comparative-study of behaviour of a variety of species, attempting to. 2. explain behaviour in terms of evolutionary adaption. Behaviours producing + effects repeated, - are not: behavioural genetics- studies role of genetics in behaviour. Look into what behaviours can be passed on genetically: cognitive-studies mental processes and complex behaviours like perception. Physiological roots of psychology: we are all aware of out own existence, it is believed that this consciousness tends to relate to our own behaviours.