Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Revolution, Clinical Psychology, Monism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Scientific study of behavior: actions, thoughts feeling or motions, reactions. 2 major influences: philosophy ideas about how knowledge can be acquired, natural science progress in understanding the nervous system, senses, etc. Nature b. empiricism knowledge gained through observation and our senses. Nurture: rationalism( ) knowledge gained through logic and reasoning. Philosophical influences: aristotle( ) empiricism is born knowledge through experience. John locke nothing can exist within the intellect that did not have its. Phrenology (gall) bumps in the skull indicate overdeveloped brain regions. Flourens entire brain (not localized areas) worked in synchrony to produce general functions: charles darwin natural selection * survival of the fittest. Nothing special about humans * humans can be studied scientifically. Ivan sechenov physiologist * believed that all complex behavior can. History of studying behavior whilhelm wundt: 1st psychology lab (1879, leipzig, germany, founder of structuralism (studied structure & components of consciousness & the mind, used introspection , studied the same phenomena cognitive psychologists study today.