PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes -Gestalt Psychology, Donald O. Hebb, Margaret Floy Washburn
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Psychology the scienti c study of the causes of behaviour; also, the application of the ndings of psychological research to the solution of problems. an event that causes another event to occur. Evolutionary psychology branch of psychology explains behaviour in terms of adaptive advantages that speci c behaviours provided in the evolution of a species. Evolutionary psychologists use natural selection as a guiding principle. the branch of psychology that studies the effects of culture on behaviour. the branch of psychology devoted in investigating and treating abnormal behaviour, psychological disorders. The growth of psychology animism the belief that all animals and all moving objects posses spirits providing their motive force. Descartes believed the mind had free will if u believed in empiricism and materialism you also believed in determinism - the doctrine that behaviour is the result of prior events d. Itard(psychologist) and victor (wild boy) lead people to believe eduction and teaching methods were different for different individuals.
