PSYC 1001 Chapter 1-5: Lecture Notes PSYC1001

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

What is psychology: study of the mind, how the mind works, how are we different from everyone else, how do we lear, what is peer pressure, etc, subtopics of psych, neuroscience, developmental/child, cognitive, social, clinical. Functionalism( william james: stream of consciousness, need to focus on understanding the function, in uenced by darwinism, natural selection. Behaviourism(john b. watson: examine observable behaviour and not internal processes, reinforcement and punishment, most of the research was done with animals, nature vs. nurture, born as a blank slate, very much towards the nurture side, environmental determinism . The humanistic perspective (maslow: looks at people having potential, growth, free will, and optimism, see maslow"s pyramid of needs! Clinical psychology: clinical psychologists help people in distress, apply theories to help clients, three step process, psychopathology, classify, research aetiology, course of disorder. Intervention: diagnosis, evaluate outcome, treat and prevent relapse. Stroop task (say the colour not the word)