Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: B. F. Skinner, Neurosurgery, Karl Lashley

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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****room 6316 in social science building dr mikes office. Fb group: official psych 1000 https://todaysmeet. com/psych1000 (questions during lecture) Scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Cultural and environmental factors: e. g. , value systems, societies/cultures may reward aggression and some may promote peace and calmness, hotter, more pollution, climate change -> aggression. Individual and psychological factors: e. g. , learning/learning history, cognitive processes, aggression: violence in early childhood. Chemicals, emotions, body parts, brain mechanisms: the way that you behave can alter your genetic makeup. Behaviourism: what you can see for phobia aid) Look @ how people think & remember. Examples: cognition (memory, problem solving) and info processing. Examples: carl rogers" therapy, and the self. Focus on neural & chemical basis of behaviour. Examples: cross cultural psych, issues in development, disorders and thinking. 4% developmental (of an organism, birth -> adulthood) 11% counselling (deal w everyday problems, not heavy duty disorders) Gustav fechner: how to measure human sensory.