Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Revolution, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Peter Pada...

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September 11,2013 jumbled words with first/last letters intact that humans are still able to read. Shows how we recognize words, acquire knowledge, form beliefs about our world. Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Conduct studys of mental disorders and how effective various treatments are. Cognitive psychology: specialize in the study of mental processes from a model that views the mind as an information processor. Study topics consciousness, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. Psycholinguistics: psychology of language : jmulebd word problem. Biopsychology: biological underpinnings of behaviour, examine how brain processes, genes, hormones influence our actions/thoughts/feelings. How evolution shaped our psychological capabilities such advanced thinking, and language, behaviour tendencies. Development psychology: human physical, psychological, and social development accross the lifespan. Experimental psychology: focuses on basic processes like learn, sensory systems, perception, motivational states, (sexual, hunger, thirst) Involve laboratory experiments with non human animals: subfield is called experimental psychology.