PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spirit Possession, Psychophysiology, Tabula Rasa

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Stephen Want

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Course details, brief history and current overview of the field. So, psychology is a science that tries to figure out how the human mind works, and ultimately, how it enables us to do all the remarkable things that we do. How do our minds enable us to think, taste, learn & remember, speak and do math. Psychology, biology, chemistry, physics: applying the scientific method at different levels. However, most of us never test them (cid:523)using the scientific method(cid:524). Psychology does. does, and who doesn(cid:495)t have a beautiful face. (cid:498)the purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. (cid:499) paul val ry. Actually, beauty is not all in the eye of the beholder (cid:523)subjective(cid:524). (cid:499) So, can you read my mind then? (cid:499) about how the mind enables us to think (how minds enable us to learn language, for example).