PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener, Psy
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Different parts of the brain are responsible for different things. Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Mental processes: our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories and. Behaviour: observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals. Overt you can observe it in the open with your senses (ex: smiling, waving. Ex: can observe what you"re doing like laughing/smiling and that tells us. Schools of thought your arms, touching your face) 1879: wundt opened up the first psychology lab in germany. Wanted to understand the origins of experiences (he used introspection (self-observation) to expose himself or others) Introspection failed because it was too subjective. Wundt kept very detailed records of everything, he was very good at data collection (very meticulous at record keeping) Wanted to understand the root of mental experiences, observed. Edward b. titchener (1867 1927) reaction time. Took wundt"s train of thought and brought it to the us.
