PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of Toho Alien Races, Multicollinearity, Wilhelm Wundt
17 Apr 2016
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Wundt and james, late 1800s = first psychology laboratory (not philosophy anymore) Behaviourists do not acknowledge the cognitive thought, care about actions. Some psychologists are biotropes who believe that biological factors (actions of the brain and its billion nerve cells) are most critical for understanding the causes of behaviour. Some psychologists are sociotropes who believe that social factors (parenting practices, peer influences, and culture) are most critical for understanding the causes of behaviour. Ten things that make psychology challenging/fascinating: behaviour is difficult to predict (meehl"s maxim = future behaviour is best predicted from past behaviour, behaviour is multiply determined, psychological influences are rarely independent of one another (multicollinearity.
