PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Middle Ear, Gustav Fechner, Brain Injury

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Summarize how psychology is relevant to many different professions. Identify several fields in which psychologists may work: outline some of the questions psychologists ask, describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Outline the philosophical roots of psychology: define empiricism and rationalism, explain structuralism and functionalism in relation to empiricism. Describe how psychology fits with other sciences: describe the scientific method, relationship to biology/natural selection. This course, psyc100, is an introduction to the science of psychology (the science of behavior and mental processes). Psychologists study these topics using the scientific method, and this course should help you to develop critical thinking and basic scientific literacy skills. An overview of what psychology is and the kinds of jobs and tasks psychologists do . Identify several fields in which psychologists may work. Outline some of the questions psychologists ask.