PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Frequency Distribution, Wilhelm Wundt, Descriptive Statistics
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The science of studying mental processes and behaviour is known as psychology. Determining how each is influenced by the psychobiology of the organism as well as the effects of the external environment. Mental processes the activity of our brain when we are engaged in thinking, processing information, and using language. Include complex experiences such as thinking, imaging, and remembering. Observe outward behaviour, our observable actions, and make inferences, or guesses about what was happening in the mind. When psychologists study mental processes and behaviour, they generally have one of four goals in mind: description: psychologists seek to describe very specifically the things that they observe, explanation: answer the question of why? . Ex: research that predicts the conditions under which we are most likely to offer help to stranger in need: control: we want to either limit or increase certain behaviours or mental processes.