PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occipital Lobe, Autonomic Nervous System, Reuptake

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Lectures 1-4: psyh is empirical, theoretically diverse, evolves in a sociohistorical context, behavior=determined by multiple causes, shaped by cultural heritage. 6: experience of the world =highly objective. 1st exp lab british empire- james mark baldwin uoft 1891. Applied psych: clinical68. 8%, counseling14. 8%, school health8. 4% , industrial5. 7% (ontario college of psychologists) Ww2- news of holocaust, nuclear threat, racism, lifestyle issues, workplace, environment, health. Cognitive perspective: mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. Maintains: people"s manipulation of mental images surely influence how they behave. Maintains: behavior can be explained in terms of the bodily structures and biochem processes that allow organisms to behave. Examines behavioural processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a species over the course of many generations. Psych: scientific study of behavior and underlying cognitive and physiological processes. Medicine: diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. Sociology: human social systems and social relations. Anthropology: origins, evolutions, cultures of the human race.