PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Positive Psychology, Psyccritiques, Endocrine System
3 Apr 2017
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Contemporary psychology: biological perspective: emphasizes studying the physical bases of human and animal behavior, including the nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, and genetics. Neuroscience: the study of the nervous system, specifically the brain. The psychodynamic perspective: emphasizes the importance of unconscious influences, early life experiences, and interpersonal relationships in explaining the underlying dynamics of behavior or in treating people with psychological problems. The cognitive perspective: focused once again on how mental processes play a role in how people process and remember information, develop language, solve problems, and think. The computer gave psychologists a new model for conceptualizing human mental processes. The cross-culture perspective: psychologists began to take a closer look at how cultural factors influence patterns of behavior. Psychologists discovered that some established psychological findings weren"t as universal as they thought: one example was social loafing: people exert more effort on a task when working alone rather than in a group. (found while working with.
