Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Action Potential, Heritability, Visual Cortex

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

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Chapters 1-4 + the appendix every box, every page, & all lectures. 15 per chapter + 15 lecture (sec 001) Do not worry about names and dates. Bring your student id and photo id. Explanations of behaviour: take behaviour and explain it in the biological level, environmental level etc, no one right, theyre all equally valid. Schools of psychology: know what all are, professor x does blah blah blah" which school of pysch does he represent. Approaches to behaviour: what a social psychologist would do, what a cognitive psychologiest would do. Areas of psychology + freud, wundt, skinner, piaget, pavlov, thorndike, watson, james, rogers, Maslow: may have a question like what is freudian theory" -> don"t worry about the names. Scientific method: steps, why, why is it better than hindsight approach. Types of studies: research methods, (case studies, observational techniques etc. , pros, cons, cause. Sampling: how to sample, distinctions and benefits.