Table of Contents
Week 1: SCOPES AND DEFINITIONS ... 3
DEFINITIONS ... 3
DOMAINS OF PSYCHOLOGY ... 3
WEEK 2: HERITABILITY, REFLEX AND INSTINCT ... 5
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Week 1: SCOPES AND DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
Psychology:
The scientific study of behaviour. The application of the scientific method, a rigorous incremental process for learning about the universe, to understand how we (and other animals) respond to the world and why.
-Aims to understand the way we operate and helps us respond to the environment so we can make informed choice about how to improve the world
Behaviour:
Observable actions and responses to the environment (it is not exclusively human)
Eg: people doing things in response to what is happening them around them, seeing a bird swooping towards you so your behavioural response is to run or duck.
Define science and the scientific method.
A slow, piecewise and disciplined process by which we learn about how the universe works, using our tools to make discoveries so we can engineer cool output products.
The "scientific method" is a rigorous incremental process for learning about the universe, to understand how we (other animals) respond to the world and why.
DOMAINS OF PSYCHOLOGY
What is the difference between a behavioural psychologist and a cognitive psychologist?
Behavioural psychologists: are focused on observable behaviours and their relationship with environmental factors,
Cognitive Psychologist: are interested in mental processes, like thinking, attention, memory, information processing.
Social Psychologist: Concerned with how we influence each other and operate in societies, things like norms, culture, persuasion, and conflict.
Educational psychology: Is concerned with factors that might influence student learning, it aims to how help students achieve the most out of their educational experience.
Personality psychology: is concerned with the ways that we are different from each other, and the stability in these differences, and how that influences our behaviour.
- is concerned with differences between individuals.
Organisational and Industrial: are interested in understanding how psychological factors influence things like your performance and satisfaction in a workplace, and therefore job fit and recruitment.
Forensic psychology is concerned with the relationship between our discipline and the justice system, and therefore relates to things like Witness Credibility, rehabilitation of offenders, Competence to stand trial, And risk assessment.
Developmental psychologist Is concerned with the way that we change psychologically over our lifespans.
Sports psychology is interested in applications to human performance in sport, things like why high performing athletes choke, or why athletes have such high rates of depression and anxiety.
How can psychological principles be applied in the context of health?
- Things such as helping people comply with their medication regimes can increase their chances of managing or curing an existing condition.
- motivating people to engage in healthy behaviours.
o such as physical activity
o promoting a healthier diet helping benefit their overall physical health by maintaining healthy weight.
WEEK 2: HERITABILITY, REFLEX AND INSTINCT
Automatic behaviours:
Are behaviours that are outside an organism voluntary control-Some behaviour is automatic and essential for survival -Reflexes are simple and immediate
-Instincts are more complex
-Reflexes are controlled by your ANS (Automatic nervous system)
-Reflexes and Instincts fundamentally are both automatic behaviours but different in scope and time
REFLEXES VS INSTINCTS
Reflexes:
Simple, automatic and near-instantaneous responses to stimuliEg: like the patella or knee jerk when you have a doctor tap (one stimuli, one simple response)
Instincts:
Innate (wired in) tendencies to demonstrate common patterns of more complex behaviours in response to stimuliEg: migration in see turtles, or joeys climbing in kangaroo pouches (these aren't reflexes but aren't learned)
Automatic nervous system:
Sends signals to organs so they know how to respond to certain situations.Eg:
- Reacting when you touch something hot - Blinking when something is thrown at you
