PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Forensic Psychology, Confirmation Bias, Experimental Psychology
18 Dec 2013
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Researches types/causes of mental disorder and maladaptive functioning. Researches to solve everyday problems people face. Tried to uncover rules for what people do/think. Used logic from experience and single case anecdotes. Conclusions were not based on systematic evidence. Philosophy problems: no systematic collection of evidence, limitations of personal experience, confirmation bias - seeking out evidence that confirms beliefs. Bigger brain size meant more of that trait. Said certain parts of brain were for certain character/personality traits. Trained introspection - reflecting on one"s own mental experience. People reported elementary components of sensory experience. Approach says all experience consists of associations between basic/elementary components. Goal - identifying components of experience through introspection should explain how mind works. Made wundt approach famous in north america. Psychological processes are not accessible to consciousness. Consciously reflecting on experience changes the way you experience it. To study how people behave and the purpose. Conscious experience was a major study topic.
