PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychopathology, Comparative Psychology, Habituation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: meghannorris

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Summarize how psychology is relevant to many different professions. Identify several fields in which psychologists may work: neuroscience (perception, learning, memory, language, and thinking, social-personality (how people act in groups, developmental (childhood growth, clinical. Outline some of the questions psychologists ask. Describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Outline the philosophical roots of psychology: define empiricism and rationalism, explain structuralism and functionalism in relation to empiricism. Describe how psychology fits with other sciences: describe the scientific method, relationship to biology/natural selection. Many people presume that all psychologists are therapists who treat people with mental problems. However, many other kinds of psychologists have little or no connection with therapy. Other non-academic, non-clinical psychologists work in various industries, including advertising, communications, business and human resources, and governmental and community service organizations. And physics is actually math. (cid:499) anonymous.