PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Science, Noam Chomsky, Empiricism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Psyc100 - lecture 1 - psychology as a science. Psychology is the study of behaviour, thoughts, and experiences. It is important to note that it is not the study of the brain. Psychology is associated with constructs that t into different categories as follows: There are several different sub-disciplines within psychology such as developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, as well as biological psychology. Psychology can be applied in many different elds: Philosophical roots of psychology: structuralism: knowledge through reduction into elements (inspired by william wundt) !1: functionalism: knowledge through understanding utility (inspired by dawn dreams and. Wednesday, september 12, 2018: rationalism: knowledge through reason and logic. Rationalists believe that general statements cannot be result of nite observations: empiricism: knowledge through sensory observation. Chomsky, a cognitive scientist, says behaviour is measurable, mind is not. In the scienti c method we use a hypothesis.