Psychology 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Social Psychology, Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2050
• Professor: Michelle Everest

Document Summary

Lacking purpose and direction: can lead to despair, clinical manifestations of depression/anxiety, vulnerability to nefarious influences, addictions, abusive/controlling people, cults. Psychology: the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie it, applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems. Clinical psychology: psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. Empiricism: the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation, scientific psychology is empirical, conclusions are based on systematic observation, conclusions are not based on guessing, reasoning, speculating, etc. Advantages of scientific approach: the empirical/scientific approach offers two major advantages, clarity and precision, a relative intolerance for errors. Results of experiment: the questionnaire was filled out to show either high or low agreement with the participant"s responses (not a random, other person, participants report more liking for a person whose responses are similar to theirs.