Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Positive Psychology, Sociobiology, Radical Behaviorism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Clinical psychology is the study and treatment of mental disorders: cognitive psychology specializes in the study of mental processes, biopsychology/ neuroscience focuses on the biological underpinnings of behavior. Industrial psychology examines people in the workplace: personality psychology focuses on the study of human personality, social psychology examines people"s thoughts, feelings and behavior pertaining to the social world: the world of other people. We tend to display a confirmation bias by selectively paying attention to information that is consistent with our beliefs and downplaying or ignoring information that is inconsistent with them. Psychology as a basic and applied science: a distinction is sometimes made between basic research, the quest for knowledge purely for its own sake and applied research which is designated to solve specific practical problems. Mind-body interactions focus our attention on the fascinating interplay between the psychological and biological levels of analysis.