PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nuremberg, Soltyrei, Retina

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Involves changes in brain act: the mind is adaptive: Evolutionary theory: emphasizes the inherited, adaptive value of behaviour and mental activity throughout the history of a space. Natural selection: those who inherit characteristics that help them adapt to their environment have a selective advantage. Behaviours and attitudes can also be considered adaptive solutions. 6. phych sci: cross levels of analysis- how biological, individual, social and cultural factors influence our specific behaviours. Biological: how body contributes to mind and behaviour as in genetic process. Individual: diff. in personality and in mental process. Cultural: thoughts, feelings and actions are similar or different: we are often unaware of the multiple influences on how we think, feel and act- happen at an unconscious level automaticity of everyday life, environmental factors influence. History: defined as the science of the elementary laws of the mind way of thinking: school of thought". Willhelm wundt is given the homor of formally founding experimental psych. introspection.