PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Clinical Psychology, Eugenics
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We make inferences about people based on cues they give us. Psychology involved the study of behaviour and it employs the scientific method. Biopsychosocial model is a means of explaining behaviour as a product of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors o o o. Bio influences: brain structure and chemicals, hormones, drugs. The works of hippocrates and galen moved the understanding of human behaviour forward by trying to categorize different types of personalities. Psychology, late 1800, because no one likes the thought of materialism, we were just big machines disorders. Clinical psychology concentrates on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological. Retained: unconscious mental activity, early life experiences influence. Phrenology 27 organs in brain observable through the skull. Freud and psychoanalysis o how we act as adults. Eminence, a combo of ability, morality, and achievement. Structuralism: attempt to analyze conscious experience by breaking it down into basic elements, and to understand how these work together. o.
