PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Operational Definition, Causal Inference, Falsifiability
9 Jan 2017
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Introduction to psychology: essential concepts for final exam. Scientific method and experimental design/analysis (chapters 1 and 2: you should be able to differentiate the major psychological perspectives (neuro/biological, behavioral, development, cognitive, social, clinical) Developmental: aims to explain how children and adults change overtime (piaget) Cognitive: thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g or (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. piaget"s (cid:449)ork sho(cid:449)ed (cid:272)hild (cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) i(cid:374) development. Social: deals with social interaction including their origin and their effects on the individual. Clinical: concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness and disability. Neuro/biological: application of the principles of biology to the study of behaviour in humans and other animals: structuralism vs. functionalism. Structuralism: based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Neither approach is the best and each have advantages and disadvantages. Descriptive: does not determine causal relationships concerned with only describing data.
