PSYA01H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Study Guide
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Application to treatment of psychological disorders and improvement of society. Causal events -> events that cuase other events (including behavior) to occur. Intellectual curiousity -> want to find explanation and understand causes. Human behaviour is root of world"s problem i. e. war, agricultural activity. 2 types of psychologist: scientist- try to discover causes of behaviour, practitioner of applied psychology apply discovery to solution of problem. Research psychologists differ in 2 ways: types of behaviours (investigation, types of causal event (analysis) Study behaviour in non-human animals, i. e. learning, memory, sensory process. Study of behaviour in various species to explain behaviour (evolutionary adaptation) to the environment. Study inherited behavioural patterns i. e. courting & mating, predation & aggression, defensive & parental behaviours. Perform experiment in applied setting i. e. school, home & business. Pleasant consequences -> behaviour repeated, unpleasant consequences -> action not repeated. Examine similarities in physical & behaviourial characteristic of blood relatives because genes are more similar.
