PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Wilhelm Wundt, Psy

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

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Chapter 1: lazarsfeld (1949): us military in wwii (all opposite) Better educated soldiers suffered more from adjusting than less-educated. Southern soldiers coped better with hot climate than northern. White soldiers more eager to be promoted than black soldiers. Southern black soldiers preferred southern white officers than northern white officers. Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Mental processes: what people think internal subjective experiences: hindsight bias. After learning an outcome, tendency to believe you would have foreseen it. Physiology- study of biological workings of body. Hippocrates illness is imbalance of fluids (humors) in body. Philosophy- using logic & speculation to understand reality & human experience, john locke (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula rasa(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:271)la(cid:374)k slate(cid:895) Phrenology- (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) predi(cid:272)t perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455) (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:271)u(cid:373)ps, fissures i(cid:374) skull. Brain specialization- size of brain region proportional to ability- skull adapts to shape brain: the dawn of psychology. Founder of structuralism- 1st formal movement in psy. (tried to identify structures of the mind: school #1: structuralism.