PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Thorndike, Clinical Psychology, Physiological Psychology
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Psychology- science with a special focus on behavior, discovering and explaining the causes of behavior. First describe the behavior, and then discover the events that caused the behavior. Causal events: events that cause other events (behavior) to occur. The use of different levels of explanation is one reason why psychology is such a diverse discipline. Human behavior is the root of many of the world"s problems: poverty, crime, overpopulation Research psychologists: different in the types of behavior they investigate, and in the causal events they analyze. Physiological psychology: studies the physiology basis of behavior, studies almost all behavioral phenomena that can be observed in non-human animals, including learning, memory, sensory processes, emotional behavior, motivation, sexual behavior and sleep. Drugs have the potential for addiction act on a particular system in the brain. Comparative psychology: studies the behaviors of a variety of organisms in an attempt to understand the adaptive and functional significance of the behaviors and their relation to evolution.
