Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Unconscious Mind, Cultural Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

Document Summary

Includes the unconscious mind: mind cannot be observed directly but is inferred from behavior, sensation a raw experience of something using the 5 senses, perception more of a thought. Immanuel kant (1724-1804: a priori knowledge (born with): built into the human brain and does not have to be learned, a posteriori knowledge (what you learn): gained from experience in the environment. The idea that the machinery of mind and behaviour evolved through natural. Neural explanations: behavioral neuroscience, study of how the nervous system produces the specific type of experience or behavior being studied, found in textbook. *mri = type of scan for the brain* Physiological explanation: way hormones and drugs act on the brain to alter behaviour. Psychological specialties: research psychologists generally identify their work as belonging to specific subfields or specialties, good researchers often use several levels of analysis.