PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trephine, Trepanning, Neurosurgery

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Psychology is a large branch that looks at human behavior. Everything that we think and do is psychology. The ideal situation in psychology is what we can see and the behaviors associated from it. It is the science of things we cannot see as well. Before, no one knew that the brain actually exists. They only believed of the body and the soul (a mythical thing). The goal is to explain why we do the things we do, how do we make plans, what goes wrong, and its to understand human behavior. Stress, disorders, headaches, ect were here since the beginning but no one knew what caused them, how they originated and how we treat them. Mri can look at everything that has to do with the brain and examine many problems. Psychology is now linked with neurology so we can actually see what causes the disorders.