PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Random Assignment, Classical Conditioning, Wilhelm Wundt
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Psychology the scienti c study of behavior and mental processes. Feelings, moods, emotion a ects cognition memories thoughts beliefs. 7% of research is done on animals (test) 70% in psychology explanation why is this going on theories competing theory 1 men do not t well in the k-12 classroom harder time controlling impulses theory 2 women are entering into elds that require college and exploring all. Wundt started rst lab in germany objective introspection systematic observation on people who held a paper clip not used anymore. Rst who tried to use objective measures world"s rst psychologist father of psychology. James in uenced modern elds of educational psyc evolutionary psyc industrial/organizational psyc inspired by darwin origins of species. Rst lab in the us functional all of our thoughts, feelings and emotions have a function natural selection. Wertheimer gestalt good gure people ll in blanks sensation and perseption sensation is all the senses coming in perception is how we interpret it.
