PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Lecture 2: 1/03/18 - psychological perspectives in psychology. Psychology - scientific study of behaviour and mental processes: behaviour - overt (observable) actions, physiological correlates of actions, mental processes - thoughts - memories, imagery, concepts. Goals of scientific psychology: describe behaviour, predict when certain behviours will occur, explaination - identify the causes of behaviour, facillitating changes (e. g therapy) Two types of pyschology: popular pyschology opinion and unproven, textbook pyschology evidence based. What works: self testing, spreading out study sessions. What doesnt work: highlighting and underlining, rereading. Not taught this because : conflict of interest. Psychology can reveal things about our society that we didn"t know. Factors affecting obedience of authority: perceived authority of the person giving the orders, contradicting authority, proximity of the victim, level of direct responsibility for the outcome\ Blind obedience more likely to occur when people shift responsibility for their actions on to someone else or something else.