PS101 Chapter 1,2,3,6,7,12,15,16: PS101 Comprehensive Textbook and Lecture Notes
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Level of the person: psychologists analyze how the content of mental processes- including emotions, thoughts, and ideas- form and influence behaviour, includes consciousness, intelligence, personality, and motivation. Analyzing the levels: psychologists may focus on a single level of analysis but activity can take place, and often does, at multiple levels, we usually operate at all three levels, and the levels interact. Francis bacon (1561-1626: english philosopher, scientist, and statesman who was fascinated by the human mind, regarded as the creator of empiricism: the view that all knowledge originates in experience, established and popularized the scientific method. Johannes muller (1801-1858: researchers needed to study the relationship between physical stimuli and their psychological effects. Gustav fechner (1801-1887: german philosopher and physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of experimental psychology, relationship between physical and mental events demonstrated that psychology had the potential to become a quantified science.
