PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Edward B. Titchener, Behaviorism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psychology definition: the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Scientific: answering the question, objectively base on observable facts, data, and establish method. Method processes: thought, feeling, sensations, perceptions, motivations, dream, subjective experiences. We cannot define, observed, but we can be inferred it. Establish first psychology research (1879) at university of leipzig germany. Edward titchener, a student of wilhelm wundt, aimed to discover the minds structure, thought introspection. Ask people to describe immediate sensations images, feeling. William james was influenced by the theory of evolution. Focuses on how behaviours function to allow people and animals appear to their environment. Thus, there is a purpose or a fuction for psychology concepts such as thinking, perceiving and acting the way we do. Darwin influenced psychologist to investigate how behaviour allows animals to adapt to their environment: new school develop. Psychology redefined as the scientific study of observable behaviour. The unconscious is the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness.