Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethology, Cultural Psychology, Behaviorism

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

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and the mind (p. 2) The noiser, hotter, and polluted the environment the more likely you will be aggressive. Individual and psychological factors: learning, cognitive processes (ex. Violence growing up in the home can translate to violence in adult life) Aggression explained in terms of the brain and neurons) These factors all affect each other, they are all connected in terms of understanding human behaviour. Functionalism: focus on the function or significance of behaviour, how does a behaviour (or mental process) help us to adapt (or improve, level: biological and psycological because of adaptation to environment, examples, psychobiology neuroscience, ethology. The mind : look for unresolved conflict, level: psychological. Importance of personality: examples, brief psychodynamic therapy, unconscious processing. Behaviourism: focus on behaviour forget the mind , discuss how behaviour changes under various conditions, level: psychological and environmental (things that influence the individual, examples, learning theories, behaviour modification (how can you change a fear of something)