PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Major Depressive Disorder, Confirmation Bias, Observer-Expectancy Effect
30 Aug 2016
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Definition: psychology is the science concerned with understanding the observable behavior and unobservable mental activity of humans and other animals. Don"t need to know names- from book. Basic research vs. application: basic- research, figure out how something works just to figure it out, application- applying it, find out something useful applying something. Different careers in psychology: clinical and counseling psychologists. Solving problems, mental illnesses, depression, can"t prescribe medication. Doctor, specialized in mental health, go to medical school: social psychologists. How we interact with other people: developmental psychologists. Most study children bc they change the most and the changes are very influential: psychometricians. Making up a test: industrial-organizational psychologists io , school or educational psychologists, health psychologists. Nurture: an example: major depressive disorder. Give medication to help symptoms- which change the change of the brain (missing notes from friday) test is chapter 1 and 2. And chapter 13- read beginning about freud and then stop.
