BIOL 1010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aphasia, Stirrup, Confounding
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Explanation: tells why a behaviour or mental process occurred. Prediction: identifies conditions under which a future behaviour or mental process is likely to occur. Change: applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted behaviour or to bring about desired goals. Why psychology: learn about and better understand your own and other"s behaviour, learn techniques for changing and improving behaviour, learn to think critically, learn why individuals act, think, and feel differently from one another. History of psychology: modern psychology arose from philosophy and physiology, aristotle (4th century bce) asked questions to understand the relationship between body and psyche, his way of answering those questions was to observe and make guesses. Structuralism: sought to identify the basic components, or structures, of conscious experience, examined things like sensation and perception (i. e. , vision, hearing, etc. ) via introspection = systematic self-observation, limitation no independent, objective observations of phenomenon under study.
