Class Notes: Introduction to Psychology
Chapter 1: What is Psychology?
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Chapter 2: Major Perspectives
1. Biological Perspective 2. Cognitive Perspective 3. Behavioral Perspective 4. Humanistic
Perspective 5. Psychodynamic Perspective
Chapter 3: Research Methods
Psychologists use experiments, case studies, surveys, and naturalistic observation.
Chapter 4: Brain and Behavior
The brain controls thought, emotion, memory, and behavior through complex neural networks.
Chapter 5: Learning and Conditioning
Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning explain how behavior is
acquired.
Chapter 6: Memory
Memory involves encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
Chapter 7: Motivation and Emotion
Motivation drives behavior, while emotions are responses involving physiological arousal, behavior,
and experience.