Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Psychology, Psychology Today, Jean Piaget

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Psychology: study of behaviour (actions and responses that are directly observable) and the mind (internal states and processes) Clinical psychology: the study and treatment of mental disorders. Cognitive psychology: the study of mental processes such as: consciousness, attention, memory, decision making and problem solving: psycholinguistics: psychology of language (relates to jumbled word activity) Biopsychology/neuroscience: biological evidence to behaviour: how the brain processes, genes, hormones and their influence on human action, thoughts and feelings, evolution and psychological capacity. Developmental psychology: human physical, psychological, and social development across the lifespan: emotions of infants. Experimental psychology: basic processes such as: learning, sensory systems (5 senses), perception, motivational states (sexual, hunger, thirst: often involves laboratory experiments. Industrial/organizational (i/o) psychology: behavior in the workplace: study leadership, teamwork, factors involving job satisfaction, work motivation, performance, systems to evaluate employee performance and job applicant selection. Personality psychology: study of human personality: relation of traits, personality tests.