PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Genetic Predisposition, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

How they act or not act to their surrounds: environment: Saw eros as the moving force: behavioural, 1950"s: real action took place in the environment; influences where outside factors are contributed to the behaviour of a person (pavlov & skinner, focusing on behaviour and observations in environments. Stimulus response: behaving in response to stimulus (aggression: cognitive, studied as a (sort-of) protest against behaviourism. Genetics: links between genetics to how we act. As a parent offset: socio-cultural, compatibility: everything is influenced by society and groups (e. g. family, culture, society, etc. ) Understanding the social context: sociology + psychology = critical to our thoughts and behaviour, the science of psychology: criteria used in order to understand the human mind, [observation] you can see a lot just by looking. To prove a theory, you always need inquiry" (environment, predictions, etc. ) You need a whole science of refined thinking albert.