PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Experimental Psychology, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Paul Broca
12 Nov 2018
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Psychology: evolution of a science: psychology psyche and logos. Devoted the rest of his life to psychology. Landmark book the principles of psychology most influential book written on the subject: psychology: scientific study of mind and behaviour. Attempt to use scientific methods to address fundamental questions about mind and behaviour: mind: private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, an ever- flowing stream of consciousness, behaviour: observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals. The things that we do by ourselves or with others. Technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) allows scientists to scan a brain to determine which parts are active when a person reads a word, sees a face, learns a new skill, or remembers a personal experience. Recent study brains of both professional and novice pianist were scanned as they played the piano results showed that professional pianists have less activity than novices in the parts of the brain that guide these finger movements.
