Our Psychology Study Notes focuses on the study of human behavior, considering its biological, effective, cognitive and social aspects.
The Psychology course prepares the future professional to act in the search for people’s well-being and mental health, in the clinical, school, organizational, institutional and community areas.
It offers students the theoretical knowledge of the area, through creative pedagogical resources, professional initiation, through internships, and initiation in research through the Center for Studies and Research in Psychology.
The internships, mandatory and always supervised, prioritize actions that meet the needs of the community in which the course is inserted.
The study of hereditary factors that affect personality and behavior is called behavior genetics. Much of our knowledge of behavior genetics comes from lab-oratory studies in which the researchers control which males and females mate with one another. Studies have shown, for example, that heredity determines to a large extent the degree of savageness in … Read more
Many people have a specific image of Where Do Psychologists Work? One popular notion is that psychologists spend most of their time talking to people about their emotional problems. Another is that psychologists can usually be found showing people inkblots and asking them what they see. Still another image is that psychologists carry stopwatches and clipboards … Read more
How Psychologists Observe Behavior? Whom DO Psychologists Observe? The psychologist’s business is to make systematic observations of behavior. But no psychologist can study everyone’s behavior. Instead, the researcher chooses a sample of people to study. Just as a geologist may attempt to determine the com- position of a mountain by analyzing a small sample of … Read more
Psychologists get their Psychology Experiments Ideas from research questions and of answering them from many sources. Events in the news may suggest important research questions. The widely publicized case of Kitty Genovese and her thirty-eight neighbors inspired many valuable studies of helping behavior. Similarly, the horrors of the Nazi era in Germany led psychologist Stanley Milgram … Read more
Apophenia is a cognitive phenomenon. It is the experience of seeing patterns, random connections or meaningless data. It is the ability of the human psyche to grasp the relationship in random information. For example, we tried to write completely random texts without any logical meaning and then to ask people what they thought. Most psychologists agree that … Read more
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects how one thinks, perceives, and relates to others. It is a serious mental illness that is characterized by a prevalent instability of mood, interpersonal relationships, self-image and behavior. This causes mal-adjustments and behaviors that deviate from social norms. The essential characteristic of personality disorder borderline disorder is a general pattern of instability associated with interpersonal relationships, … Read more
