PSY 1101 Lecture 11: psych.docx

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

Document Summary

By mental events, we mean activities such as attention consciousness, information processing, thought language, memory, and decision making. A scientist can observe overt behaviour. For this course, we shall use a compromise definition of psychology the study of mental events and behaviour. These branches and divisions are somewhat arbitrary and are based on (1) 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. It however proved to be very subjective and unreliable. What one individual might report following introspection might be very different from what another individual might report: nevertheless, the initial studies indicated that the basic principles of experimentation can be used to explain psychological phenomena. James wrote a great deal about what we would now consider to be. American philosophy, this one economic, capitalism.