Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Cultural Psychology, Confirmation Bias

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

Document Summary

They diagnose and treat people with psychological problems in clinics: cognitive psychology specializes in the study of mental processes, especially from a model that views the mind as an information processor. Examine such topics as consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving: biopsychology/neuroscience: focuses on the biological underpinnings of behaviour. Industrial-organizational psychology: examines people"s behaviour in the workplace: personality psychology: focuses on the study of human personality. Seek to identify core personality traits and how influential they are: social psychology: examines people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour pertaining to the social world. Like how people influence each other. : ways to promote misconceptions, mental shortcuts when forming judgement (stereotype), fail to consider alternative explanations, confirmation bias (selective attention) In psychology, goals are to describe how people behave and to identify factors that influence or cause a particular type of behaviour: applied research: designed to solve specific practical problems.