PSY E111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology, Max Wertheimer, Neurology
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Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Mental processes refers to all the internal, covert activity of our minds, such as thinking, feeling, and remembering. Description: observing a behaviour and noting everything about it: what is happening, where, to whom, under what circumstances. Explanation: coming up with a theory or a general explanation. Prediction: determining what will happen in the future. Structuralism focuses on the structure of the mind; died out in the early. Margret f. washburn first woman to receive a ph. d. in psychology. Mary whitton calkins completed every course and requirement for earning a. Ph. d. by harvard university but was denied on account of being a woman; established a psychological lab at wellesley college; became the first female president of the american psychological association. Francis cecil sumner became the first african american to earn a ph. d. in psychology at clark uni. ; became the chair of the psychology department at.
