PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Main Source, Voluntary Manslaughter, White-Collar Crime
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Lecture 1: psychology, philosophy of science, and forensics. Four requirements of a science: candidate science studies phenomena reflecting natural order in the universe (natural. Many areas of psychology empirically study behaviors that result from human convention without recourse to examining the underlying information processing. Psychology, the study of behaviours, could then be connected logically and linguistically with neurobiology, rather than simple correlation . Information content can be: external (physical inanimate, audition, vision, intrapersonal (mood, pain, motor sequences, or personality as a set of characteristic cognitive, motivational, and emotional tendencies or biases. 2: how the environment, physical or social, activate and inhibit different systems. Identify individual differences from anatomy to transmitters, receptor subtypes, and controlling epigenetic and genetic substrates. Psychologists should be better and more broadly trained in behavioural neuroscience. Clinical systems should be developed around behavioural neuroscience framework as developed above rather than a theoretically na ve collection of systems appearing to cluster together.
