PSY 1101 Chapter Notes -Telegraph Key, Sq3R, Jean Piaget

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

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Our brain is the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos --- (owen gingerich, The outer space staggers us with its enormity, but the inner space enthralls us. The infant react as though, when you momentarily move behind a door, you actually disappear. Only to reappear out of thin air. Psychology is the science that seeks to answer such questions about us all how and why we think, feel, and act as we do. To be humans is to be curious about ourselves and the world around us. Scientific psychology began in germany (germany"s university of leipzig) in 1879 when wilhelm. The experiment consisted of a machine which measured the time lag between of an individual"s hearing when a ball hit a platform and the amount of time it takes for them to press a telegraph key. (hunt 1993)