PSYC 1001 Lecture 1: PSYC chapter 1 notes .docx
7 Nov 2014
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By the rigorous application of scientific methods: psychology is practical, but it is more than that, it is a way of thinking, as a science, psychology demands that researchers ask pr cis questions about such issues and that they test their ideas through systematic observation, psychology provides a way of building knowledge that is relatively accurate and dependable, psychology"s story is one of people groping toward a better understanding of them, aristotle"s conception of memory suggest that memories are the result of three principles of association; similarity, contrast, and contiguity, hermann von helmholtz (1821 1894) began one of the first experimental examinations of human reaction time, psychology"s intellectual parents were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology, historians christened 1879 as psychology"s date of birth. ", psychology"s primary focus was consciousness the awareness of immediate experience.
