PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward B. Titchener, Operant Conditioning, Sigmund Freud
15 Sep 2020
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Reliability: consistency in what is measured, same score time after time fi same person tested and retested. Validity: test measures what it is intended to measure. Ethics in research: canadian psychology association: participation must be voluntary, respect for confidentiality, participants may withdraw at any time, must be debriefed about full purpose of study and implications. The funding of psychology: wilhelm wundt: founder of psychology as academic discipline, psychological laboratory in leipzig, germany founded in 1879, subject matter of psychology was actual, immediate, conscious experiences of individuals. Structuralism: edward bradford titchener: introduced psychology to north america, analyzed basic elements/ structure, of conscious mental experience, wundt thought consciousness could be reduced to basic elements. Gestalt: individuals perceive objects and patterns as whole units, whole is more than sum of its parts, leader was max wertheimer who introduced famous experiment demonstrating phi phenomenon, influential today in psychology of perception.
