PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Community Psychology, Sq3R, Thought Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Behaviourism- focus on sensation, feeling, and thoughts through the behaviour of people (you cannot observe feelings and thoughts itself but you can study and observe the reactions that are surfaced due to the internal thoughts) Freudian psychology emphasizes on the ways out unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behaviour. Humanistic psychology draws attention to ways that current environmental influences can nurture or limit our growth potential and to the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied. Cognitive revolution how the mind processes and retains information. Cognitive psychology explores the ways that we perceive, process, and remember information. Cognitive neuroscience combination of cognitive psychology (study of the mind) and neuroscience (study of the brain) Modern definition of psychology science of behaviour and mental processes. Charles darwin had studied turtles on an island and noticed that the turtles in one area were different from the other.