PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Information Processing, Wilder Penfield, Humanistic Psychology
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Psychology: scientific study of the causes of behaviourfocus turned from mind to behaviour. Casual event: an event that causes another event (including behaviour) to occur. 1st describe it: categorize & measure behaviour; therefore, different psychologist observing same phenomena. 2nd discover the causes of behaviour we observe: the events responsible for a behaviour"s occurrence. Fields of psychology: research psychologist differ: in the type of behaviour they investigate and the casual events they analyze, ex. memory in physiological events and other will explain on environmental events. observing non-human animals including learning, memory, sensory processes, emotional behaviour, motivation, sexual behaviour, and sleep. Comparative: studies the behaviour of members of a variety of species in an attempt to explain behaviour in terms of evolutionary adaptation to the environment. Behaviour analysis: studies the effect of the environmental events on behaviour. important cause of a specific behaviour is the relationship btwn behaviour & consequent event. Behaviours that produce pleasant outcomes tend be to repeated.