PSYC 1110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt
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Three key terms--science, behavior, and mental processes. Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. *as a science , psychology uses systematic method to observe human behavior & draw conclusions. Goals: describe behavior, predict behavior, explain behavior. Behavior: everything we do that can be observed. Mental processes: thoughts, feelings and motives that we experience privately. The process of thinking deeply, asking questions and evaluating evidence. Critical thinkers question and test facts : curiosity. Noticing things and wanting to know what and why. Asking questions, opening the mind and having imagination: skepticism. To look at assumptions in a new way, asking questions: objectivity. Trying to see things are they really are, not what we want them to be. Provides the best answers to questions at any time. Believed that most of human behavior is caused by dark, unpleasant and unconscious impulses. His ideas were based on human nature. Created the discipline of psychology and structural approach.
