Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1&2: Unconscious Mind, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Nick Skinner

Document Summary

Psychology the discipline concerned with behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected organisms physical state, mental state and external environment. Methods: (1) descriptive field observation (naturalistic) must be done systematically, as many situations/times as possible anthropomorphism: giving human characteristics to animals. On the basis of only observation, you can"t know exactly why the behavior happened. We explain what we see in an experiment because we set up the environment and controls. Survey: the conditions which a survey must abide. Methods of analyzing and recording must be recorded with administration. The surveyors must fully understand the purpose of the experiment and be skillful and knowledgeable. The sample of people you are asking to take the survey must be selected to represent the population. Surveys questions must cover the topic uniform and generate answers which discriminate and/or do not create bias. *more than half of psychologist in canada are clinical psychologist.