PSYA01H3 Chapter 1-8: PSAY01 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 1. 2: how psychology became a science observation, not common sense or speculation: empiricism: knowledge comes through experience. based on careful, determinism: the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause-and-effect relationships. American psychology and had a singular focus on studying only observable behaviour, with little to no reference to the mind -> unobservable. Ivan pavlov: showed that dogs could learn to salivate to a tone if the tone has a history of sounding just prior to the delivery of food. Further suggesting that brain was a machine: gestalt (german forcomplete form of an object) psychology: an approach emphasizing that psychologists need to focus on the whole of perception and experience, rather than its parts. Industrial and organizational (i/o) psychology: a branch of applied psychology in which psychologists work for business and other organizations to improve employee productivity and the organizational structure of the company/ business.
