HTHSCI 1G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Experimental Psychology, Psychoanalysis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 1G03
• Professor: Mike Wong

Document Summary

First thing that comes to mind: sigmund freud. Psychoanalysis: focus on atypical mental disorders --> not the focus of this course. First thing that comes to mind: the brain. The center --> the area will all things happen. Social- cultural: how society and culture affects our behaviour. Evolutionary: uses principles of evolutionary biology; natural & sexual selection. Humanistic psychology: focuses on people as they are, typical behaviours; focus on positive, what it means to be human. Biological psychology psychobiology: interested in how the nervous system mediates or regulates our behaviours. Psychology is the study of behaviours and mental processes. Behaviour: observable actions in response to a particular situation or stimulus. Mental processes: unobservable, element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and the feel, the faculty of consciousness and thought. We can ask participants about their mental processes! Design a task, and ask subjects about their responses, therefore.