PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Reuptake, Hindbrain

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Mental events attention-consciousness, information processing, thought- language, memory and decision making - take place within the mind and therefore cannot be directly observed. Branches and divisions are based on whether the psychologist is a basic, fundamental researcher (an experimental psychologist), an applied psychologist using the applications of experimental psychology (thus an applied psychologist) or a clinical psychologist. Psychophysicists study the what and why of consciousness. Structuralism isolate the basic elements or structures of the mind (done by. Introspection looking inward and reflecting on one"s own conscious experience; very subjective and unreliable; what one individual reports might be different from what another individual reports. William james is considered to be the father of american psychology. Began in the late 19th century (william james) Fell into disrepute with the development of another school of psychology, behaviourism in the 1920s. Study of higher mental functions -- memory, attention, decision-making, language.