[PSYC 1000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 45 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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Understanding how mental processes and behaviour are shaped by experience by using a scientific approach: william james nasty little subject . Questioned the relationship between body and psyche. Report on sensation, elements of experience, introspection (how you feel, how you perceive the outside world) Wanted to discover the structuralism of the brain. Introspection: want to appear good to their researchers ex. Thoughts: boiling down the essence of psychology to something that is too small to study . Functional value to our thoughts and behaviour. James did very few studies, he was a thinker instead: f. skinner. Behaviourism allowed researchers to use other subjects than humans. Return to mental processes but using other approaches than introspection. Act of introspection involves going back and thinking of how you thought or felt not in the moment. Search for causes of mental processes and behaviour. Birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract : how we quickly make decisions about the world.
