PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gas Laws, Intelligent Design, Lightdark

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Psyche: from greek, breath, soul, spirit, mind (psycho, psychic) The study of mental events, the mind plato and socrates- ancient greek psychologists. Structuralists (titchener)- believed this is a science, used the tool of introspection. Introspection- examining your own mental events- subjective method wanted to become trained observers of sensations to identify these things repeatedly. Structuralists were criticized for lacking objectivity subjective- only you have access to the information, a feeling. Objective- multiple people can study the information mental events are subjective, but science must be objective so that the knowledge can be validated and experimented and tested on. Behaviorism (watson)- the study of behavior, behavior is objective and knowledge about behavior can be validated! study of brain events. Each eld of psychology has a purely scienti c side and practical side. Experimental learning, memory, study of the behavior, language, thought processes, sensation and perception, action and moving introspection. Experimental, but interested how individuals are in uenced by group behavior.