PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Revolution, Cultural Psychology, Black Kids

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Psychology: scientific study of behavior and the mind. Behavior: actions and responses we can directly observe. Mind: internal states and processes (thoughts and feelings) Clinical psychology: study and treatment of mental disorders. E. g. biological bases of how adolescents with anxiety disorder make decisions using brain imaging techniques to compare consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. Cognitive psychology: study of mental processes from a model that views the mind as an information processor. Psycholinguistics: an area that focuses on psychology of language. E. g. study how wording same info in diff ways affect people"s decisions. How brain processes, genes, hormones influence actions, thoughts, feelings. How evolution shape our psychological capabilities (eg. our capacity for advanced thinking and language) and behavioral tendencies (aggressive or altruistic) Physical, psychological, social development over lifespan infants, parenting styles, change of mental abilities in diff stages learning, sensory systems, perception, motivational states lab experiments with animals. How children"s decision- making strategies change in age.