Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Sigmund Freud, Albert Bandura, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind. Behaviour is actions and responses that can be directly observed and the mind is internal states and processes that must be inferred from observation. Behavior is a means of adapting to environmental demands and psychological capacities and is determined by multiple causal factors that can interact with one another in complex ways. Clinical psychology is the study and treatment of mental disorders (therapy, research of mental disorders and effectiveness of treatment) Cognitive psychology specializes in the study of mental processes, especially from a model that views the mind as an information processor (consciousness, attention, memory, decision making and problem solving: psycholinguistics focuses on the psychology of language. Subfields of psychology: biopsychology/neuroscience: behaviour, hormones, genes, brain processes, effects of evolution, developmental psychology: physical, psychological and social development across the lifespan, parenting styles, experimental psychology: learning, sensory systems, perception and motivational states.