PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Acetylcholine, Social Desirability Bias, Margo Wilson

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Psychology is the science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it. Bce) and aristotle (385 322 bce) considered and debated issues of relevance to psychology including such subjects as the separation of mind and body and whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism) (hothersall, 1995). Plato, an ancient greek scholar, proposed that the mind is separate from the body and the mind continues to exist after death and ideas are innate. He established america"s first research laboratory in psychology at johns hopkins. In canada, the first experimental laboratory was established by james mark. Nof: williams james (1842 1910: behaviourism (1913 present): based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behaviour. Impressed with charles darwin"s concept of natural selection => consciousness is an important characteristic which came to be selected over time.