PSYC 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Motor Control, Neuron

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Peter Van Der Velde

Document Summary

Psychology is the science of studying different mental processes and behaviours. Mainly concerned with studying and examining the mind and behaviours and determining how each is influenced of by the psychobiology of the organisms as well as the impact of the external environment around the organism. Describes the activity of our brains when participating in events such as thinking, processing info, and using language. The main method for learning about mental processes in early studies of psychology was observing outward behaviour. What goals do we have in mind when studying mental processes and behaviour: description: Seeking to describe specific things that they observe. Ranges from seeing how babies learn to talk to how people fall in love: explanation: Describes theories of why events happen (such as addictions to substance: prediction. Psychologists also predict circumstances under a variety of behaviours that are likely to occur.