Psychology 1000 Chapter 1: Psychology - The Study of Behaviour textbook notes

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

Document Summary

Biopsychology/neuroscience: how the brain processes, genes and hormones influence actions, thoughts and feelings. Developmental psychology: human physical, psychological and social development throughout life. i. e. emotions of infants or parenting styles, basic processes such as learning, sensory, perception and. Industrial organizational: behaviour and performance in the workplace. i. e. leadership, teamwork, and motivation. Social: how personality traits affect one another and behaviour, thoughts feelings and behaviour in the social world. How people influence each other or act in groups. Tendencies of aggression, shyness, etc can be inherited genetically. It is believed mental ability and behaviour evolved along with a changing body. When monkey people evolved they could use their hands to make tools and societies. Those who"s brains better supported adaptive mental ability lived longer and more likely to reproduce. Sociobiology holds that complex social behaviours are also built into the human species as products of evolution. (controversial theory) Too much emphasis on living to pass on one"s genes to next generation.