Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Unconscious Mind, Behavioral Modernity, Sigmund Freud

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

The scientific study of behavior and the mind. How the environment and the scenario can change behavior. These factors interact with one another (bio ->i/p -> c/e ->i/p ->bio) Each are equally correct but they take different procedures. Focus on the function or significance of behavior. Consider everything in context, before looking at things individually. People could think differently due to their situation. Carl roger"s therapy (explain your own troubles), the self (how you perceive yourself) Focus on neural & chemical basis of behavior. Cross culture psychology, issues in development, disorders etc. What is different between cultures that effects behavior. Reflex arc, peripheral stimuli to central system which creates response. Sensation can be measured; brought physics into psychology. Structuralist: find the simplest components and then fit the components to create a more complex experience. He believed that physical disorders had a psychological base. There are things that we do not fully know.