PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Process Function, Empiricism, Behaviorism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Unit 1 deiniions : psychology"s history and approaches. Empiricism: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observaion and experimentaion. Structuralism: an early school of psychology that used introspecion to explore the structural elements of the human mind. Funcionalism: a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioural process funcion. How they enable us to adapt, survive, and lourish. Experimental psychology: the study of behaviour and thinking using the experimental method. Behaviorism: the view that psychology should be an objecive science that studies behaviour (without reference to mental process), condiioning and observaion. Humanisic psychology: historically signiicant perspecive that emphasized the growth potenial of healthy people and the individual"s potenial for personal growth. Cogniive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain acivity linked with cogniion, including percepion, thinking, memory, and language. Psychology: the science of behaviour and mental processes.