PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cogito Ergo Sum, Pineal Gland, Business Simulation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: BRUCE TSUJI

Document Summary

What is psychology: science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems, = psyche soul . Meaning: science - using research to determine universals in human behaviour as opposed to folk legends, intuition, palmistry, etc. Includes clinical psychology (treatment of those with psychological disorders) as well as many other ways that psychological research can be applied to real life. Do others have similar dreams: certain trends that become popular during a certain amount of time usually has something to do with the things happening in the world at that given time. Because there is only one he concluded that pineal gland = soul. Wilhelm wundt: doctor & physiologist, goal: make psychology independent discipline, he established the first psychological laboratory in 1879, psychology born in 1879!