PSYC 2000 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Week 1
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Psychology- scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology aims to describe, explain, predict, and control mental processes. You can only trust observations belief, reasoning, etc. Mental processes- perception, memory, thinking (such as ideation, imagination, I think therefore i am (cartesian circle) The mind is fundamentally different than the body. No such thing as cause because you cannot directly observe it . Just because the sun rose for the past mill years doesn"t mean it will. Academic family tree- trained the first psychologists. Functionalism and all we know about it. Interested in the function of the mind, not the structure. Wrote principles of psychology, what the field of psychology should be. Came up with the phrase stream of consciousness . Associated with wundt and the mentalist movement. Researchers ask the subject what they think happened. Can"t study what is not publicly observable. Most famous and largest component of behaviorism. Wrote walden ii (utopian fiction) and beyond freedom and.
