Psychology 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Coat, Monism, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Riley Hinson

Document Summary

Birth of empiricism i got it straight from the horses mouth this means that you got it straight from the source! It also means that evidence has been found, psychologists want evidence to prove their points, which further proves that psychology is a science. Empirical evidence gained through experience and observations. Minimize bias and solves specific practical problems. * 4 goals of psychology: describe behavior and mental processes and this should be done in the most objective way. The behaviors have to be described in objective terms: explain/understand causes of these behaviors, predict behaviors (when we understand the behavior we slowly learn to predict the behavior, control the behavior. Dep-c is an easy way to remember these. Basic research is done for knowledge for the researchers own sake. Applied research- solutions to practical problems, this is the information you learn from basic research and than it becomes applied to a real world setting.