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Class notes Introduction to Psychology (PSYC1020)

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PSYC1020 (PSYC1020)

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Nova Southeastern University

In this document, you'll get an idea of what are the concepts that will be reviewed in class. It includes the types of psychological research that can be done, the goals of psychology, different types of evidence, the philosophers that were part of the beginning of psychology, the types of perspect...

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Type Class notes
Professor(s) Elyse schwartz-myers
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psychology
types of research
goals of psychology
evidence
science
bias
roots of psychology
types of perspectives
positive psychology
philosophers

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Chapter 1: An introduction to psychology
What is psychology
● Scientific study of behavior and mental (thoughts and emotions) processes
● Psychologists work in a variety of subfields, but all focus on studying behavior and
underlying mental processes
○ Clinical psychologists and counselors provide therapy, exploring the causes
of psychological disorders
● Other types of psychologists
○ Working in labs - studying human interactions
○ School psychologists - studying children behavior
○ Neuropsychologists - studying the brain
○ Forensic
○ Media psychologists - studying human interactions with technology
○ Health psychologists - working with hospitals
○ Industrial and organizational psychologists - working for large companies
○ Social psychologists
○ Sports psychologists
○ Military psychologists
○ Animal behavior
○ Geropsychologists - working with older persons
○ Developmental psychologists - studying people’s growth and development

Basic Research Applied Research

- Gather knowledge - Change behaviors and customs
- Build upon existing knowledge - Often leads to real world application

Qualitative Research Quantitative Research

● Goals of psychology
○ The goals lay the foundation for the scientific approach and the research
designs used

Describe Describe or report what is benign observed

Explain Organize and make sense of research findings

Predict If it's valid, it may be used to make predictions and find patterns

Change Refers to how we can apply the results given so that they lead to an
improvement

● Common sense

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