PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Escapology, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reflexology
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Psychology as it emerged in north america: a few years br (before rats, world in psychology before behaviorism. If you want to learn about the heart you look at the structure first: psychology, structural (introspection) and functional (functionalism) If you aren"t doing introspection you aren"t doing psychology. Paradigm shift: physics is the study of the outside world, and structure and movement is what that"s about (laws of motion, laws of gravity, etc. ) In titchener"s experimental psychology, o did not stand for organism but for. Observer : however, as introspection declined as a method, the subject in an experiment was no longer treated as an observer who reported on his or her mental processes, but as an. If we found out one gender was smarter than the other, this would affect how people decide who to vote into roles and etc.
