PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Behavioral Neuroscience, Gestalt Psychology, Collectivism
14 Sep 2016
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Faced challenge - how you perceive the world, how i perceive the world, different subjective experiences. Was dead end - no way to meet scientific requirement of replicability. Functionalists - studied how we learn skills to adapt to environment. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts . Studied ability to separate figure from ground. First to note children developed through sequences cognitively. Individualism - believe your successes are your own. Collectivism - successes of your own are successes of group. Looks for brain structures, what structures associated with. Approaches recognizing we can study specific areas within brain. Think about how theories and research methods interact* 3 specific things about research in humans, guiding principles (tri-council policy, 2010) For self and others important to self. Must not be used unless value of research outcome outweighs harm to person as individual. Enough information about research must be known in order to accept or deny participation.
