Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Behavioral Neuroscience

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Derek Quinlan

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They also examine topics such as, consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. An area within cognitive psychology, called psycholinguistics, focuses on the psychology of language: biopsychology: focuses on the biological underpinnings of behaviour. Biopsychologists examine how the brain processes, genes, and hormones, influence our actions, thoughts, and feelings. Development psychology: examines human physical, psychological, and social development across the lifespan: experimental psychology: focuses on such basic processes as learning, sensory systems (vision, hearing, etc), perception, and motivational states (sexual motivation, hunger, thirst, etc). Industrial-organizational (i/o) psychology: examines people"s behaviour in the workplace. They also study how people affect each other and the behaviour of groups and topics (prejudice, love, relationships, etc: fields can overlap each other, many psychologists have interests that bridge different subfields. Understanding behaviour: some pitfalls of everyday approaches: we often take mental shortcuts when forming judgements, shortcuts that sometimes serve us poorly.