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Experimental psychologists have concentrated their main efforts on three sets of problems. First, they have sought to discover the mechanisms which enable adults to perceive the physical and social world, learn how to predict what will happen next, and remember what has happened in the past. Most of this work has been done in the laboratory and has involved studies of both neurological and psychological processes. Secondly, psychologists have earned a large store of knowledge about the ways in which perception, learning and variety of other behaviours develop before birth and postnatally: how, for example, individuals learn to see, to recognize their blood-relatives, solve problems and use language. And then, more recently, they have begun to use comparative methods - comparing the behaviour of one species with another, in an attempt to unravel the evolutionary origins of human behaviour.

Psychology at Mount Allison trains students to treat all behaviour as a natural phenomenon, to be studied systematically both in the field and in the laboratory. It equips them with technical skills needed to do so, and above all tries to foster a deep and lasting curiosity about the scientific principles which govern animal and human behaviour.

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