1 Junior Psychology General Information Most lecture notes go up on the web before the lectures. Get your web access organized this week - lots of places e.g. Access laboratories. Psychologists study the human mind and human behaviour. Research psychologists investigate the neural, cognitive, emotional, or social aspects of human behaviour. Psychologists in applied fields provide mental health care in hospitals, clinics, schools, or private settings.
Psychologists are concerned with how people act, think, reason, and feel.
They formulate hypotheses and collect data to test those hypotheses. There is a key bit of knowledge which is important in understanding why we teach what we teach. Psychology is a science AND a profession. That is not true of most university subjects e.g. Maths or Physics or English. You study the science during your undergraduate course and then get the professional training at a postgraduate level.