PSYA01H3 Chapter : its an older date, but they still use this textbook
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Psychology- a science w/ special focus on behaviour; broad discipline, scientific investigation of behaviour and mental processes. I t"s the science of the mind of how we think and act in the world. Conceives the mind as an independent free floating spirit. Now the mind is the ultimate function to control behaviour; independence is now just a characteristic. Focus: behaviour(can be observed) tf the brain is an organ that contains the mind + controls behaviour. In order to study behaviour and to provide an explanation . Our behaviour is the root of many problems: poverty, crime, drug addiction, war, internal /external problems. become familiar w/ what ppl/ animals do (walk down the st, see t ruck hit a kid [cause]omg. categorize & measure behaviour = tf ensures that different psychologist in diff places are observing same phenomena before it can be studied (environmentalist view, or organist view)