PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychophysical Parallelism, Data Science, Faculty Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Goal to describe the physiological correlates of mental and behavioural phenomena. The origin and development of voluntary behaviour: habits are of central importance, combined the effects of pleasure and pain with spontaneous behaviour, i(cid:373)ila(cid:396) to tho(cid:396)(cid:374)dike"s law of effect. Dist(cid:396)usted speculatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)a(cid:396)(cid:373)chai(cid:396) psychologizi(cid:374)g(cid:863) stress the importance of observation. Empiricism: by observation how we get our information. Positivism: equates knowledge with empirical observation. Law of three stages: theological stage phenomena are explained by the dictates of same deity, metaphysical stage replace divine concepts with personal abstractions, positivistic or scientific stage highest level of understanding. Experiment and observation we explain things by the natural laws of cause and effect. Sociology at being at the apex and chem and physics below. Utopian society based on scientific principles and beliefs. Differed from compt in what type of data science could be certain about.