Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Shelley Cross- Mellor

Document Summary

What is psychology: science of behaviour and factors that influence it. Not observable, e. g. thinking, motivation: stresses influence of biological, environmental and psychological variables. Why is human behaviour fascinating: the same species that gave the world the mars rover and images of the brain also gave the world suicide bombers and the holocaust. Psychology and multiple discipline: psychology draws from and overlaps with various other disciplines. Biology the scientific study of life processes and biological structures. Anthropology scientific study of cultural origins, evolution and variation. Sociology scientific study of human social relations and systems. Computer science scientific study of information processing and manipulation of data. Medicine scientific study of health, diseases, their causes and treatments. Fields within psychology: numerous specialty fields in psychology, basic areas of psychology. Generation of new knowledge upon which later applications can be built. Psychological research done in many field areas: applied areas of psychology. Apply basic knowledge to solve human problems.