PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward B. Titchener, Determinism, Empiricism
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Textbook notes - chapter 1: introducing psychological science. Cyber emotional intelligence: line of research that examines the assumptions that we make about people based on their online personalities. Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. Anyone with an opinion on something cannot classify that as a theory. Also be sceptical - sometimes things that seem too good to be true, are! Looking at human behaviour as the result of physical laws was implying materialism belief that humans, and other living beings, are made exclusively of physical matter. Influences from medicine: clinical psychology, field of psychology that concentrates on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders, a topic that related psychology and medicine was brain localization". Successful people should reproduce and have successful children - whereas criminals should not .
