PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking, Mary Whiton Calkins, Confirmation Bias
16 Nov 2020
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What is psychological science: the study, through research, of mind, body, and behavior, mind: mental activity, mental activity results from biological processes in the brain, behavior: the totality of observable human/animal actions. What are the scientific foundations of psychology: psychology originated in philosophy, chinese philosophers and scientists speculated about human behavior, in 19th century europe, psychology emerged as a scientific discipline. Experimental psychology initially focused on the structure, not the function, of mental. Activity: early 1800"s: john stuart mill argued psychology should be a science of observation and of experimentation, 1879: wilhelm wundt established the first psychological laboratory. Wundt realized that psychological processes the products of psychological actions in the brain take time to occur. He used a method called reaction time to assess how quickly people can respond to events. Introspection: a systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts. Functionalism: william james: a critic of structuralism.
