Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Siamese Fighting Fish, Karl Lashley, Twin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Psychology scientific study of behaviour and mind. Clinical psychology study and treatment of mental disorders. Cognitive psychology study of mental processes (ex. consciousness) Psycholinguistics psychology of language (ex. jumbled words) Science systematically gathering + evaluating empirical data to answer questions about world. Empirical evidence evidence gathered through experience and observation. Psychology"s goals: describe how people and other animals behave, explain and understand causes of behaviours, predict how people and animals will behave under conditions, influence/control behaviour through knowledge/control of its causes to enhance human welfare. Basic research quest for knowledge purely for its own sake. Applied research solve specific practical problems (uses principles from basic research) Mind-body reactions relations between mental processes in brain and functioning of other systems: links between psychological and biological levels (think about food, get hungry) Mind-body dualism mind is a spiritual entity not subject to physical laws that govern the body: rene decartes two interact through brain"s pineal gland.