PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky
PSY100H1(S) – Lecture 1
• Study psychology because you want to…
o … know why people behave the way they do, how they think,
remember, and make decisions
o … understand yourself better, especially your mind
o … help people and that may require a more scientific
understanding of how they function
o … better understand altered states of consciousness
o … improve how your memory works and how you make
decisions
o … understand how and why your family messed you up and
doomed you to romantic failure
• Psychology is expected to address many issues like behavior, subjective
experience, how people’s minds function, and/or malfunction,
consciousness, learning, and development
o This also means that there’re many different branches to
psychology:
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(From Prof. Vervaeke’s slides)
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o In addition, there’re also various branches of applied psychology:
(From Prof. Vervaeke’s slides)
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2: in addition, there"re also various branches of applied psychology: (from prof. vervaeke"s slides) 3: now, speaking in terms of clinical psychology, 3 branches arise: (from prof. vervaeke"s slides, rational study of the mind began with the work of plato in ancient. With dualism, mind and behavior will be completely mysterious and forever inexplicable no science of the mind or behavior would be possible. Freud followed an ancient tradition of trying to explain irrational behaviour in terms of inner conflict between different parts of the psyche. Insights the unconscious, interactionism in development (more on this in later lecture), multiple systems in psyche. 6 where mismatches caused difficulty for the individual. Behaviorism: emerged from work of thorndike, pavlov, and watson. Thorndike intelligent pets and law of effect. Pavlov classical conditioning (more on this in later lecture) Watson rejection-of-introspection-based methods of psychology: behavior explained only in directly-observable terms = stimulus and response. Organism usually respond not to the stimulus but its.
