PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clinical Neuropsychology, Nipple, Cognitive Psychology
PSYCH100 - FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
Wk. 1 – Foundations of Psychology
Goals of Psychology
Describe behaviour and mental processes
Explain behaviour and mental processes
Predict behaviour and mental processes
Change behaviour and mental processes
Other professions with similar goals
Teachers
Coach
Marketing
What makes Psychology a unique discipline of study?
Scientific methodology
1. Approach to gaining knowledge involving
Collecting empirical knowledge
Generating theories
Definition of Psychology
Scientific study of behaviour and the psychological and mental process that underlie
it.
Behaviours – actions we can observe others/self doing.
Mental (cognitive) processes – private thoughts, emotions, feelings, and motives.
(cannot be seen by others)
52 different areas of study in psychology
Some major areas are:
Biological psychology (psysiological psychology
Investigates how physiological processes influence and are influences by
behaviour and mental processes.
Neuropsychology
Cognitive psychology
Investigate mental processes such as memory, perception and attention.
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Document Summary
Scientific methodology: approach to gaining knowledge involving. Scientific study of behaviour and the psychological and mental process that underlie it. Behaviours actions we can observe others/self doing. Mental (cognitive) processes private thoughts, emotions, feelings, and motives. (cannot be seen by others) Investigates how physiological processes influence and are influences by behaviour and mental processes. Investigate mental processes such as memory, perception and attention. Studies changes in behaviour and mental processes across lifespan. Investigates what makes up our personalities and what is influences by our personalities. Investigate how mental process and behaviours are influences by other people. Nine areas of practice endorsed in australia: clinical/ clinical neuropsychology. Clients; people with psychological disorders, or severe behavioural or emotional problems/ individual with neurological disorder: counselling. Career, marital grief counselling: educational and developmental. Educational curriculum design, teacher training, testing, counselling in primary and secondary schooling: forensic psychology. Psychologist working in the legal and criminal justice system.
