ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Clinical Psychology, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Philippe Pinel
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Psychology is a science - a science with a special focus on behaviour. The primary emphasis is on discovering and explaining the causes of behaviour. The word psychology comes from two greek words: psukhe, meaning breath or. Psychology literally means the science of mind. Changed from mind to behaviour because the mind cannot be observed while behaviour can. Ultimate goal is understand human behaviour: to explain why people do what they do. Must become familiar with the things that people (or animals) do. Must learn how to categorize and measure behaviour so that they can be sure that different psychologists in different places are observing the same phenomena. Must discover the causes of the behaviour we observe - the events responsible for a behaviour s occurrence. If they can discover the events that caused the behaviour, they have explained it. Events that cause other events to occur are called causal events.
