PY - Psychology PY 100L Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Gestalt Psychology, Empiricism

• School: NMU
• Department: PY - Psychology
• Course: PY - Psychology PY 100L
• Professor: Dr.Susan Kapla

Document Summary

Ch 1 introduction to the science of psychology and research in psychology. Psychology: the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to make application to the world. Empiricism: all content of mind comes from experiencing the world. We only know what we can see/test. The innate mechanisms underlying human emotion, drives, capacity for reason are there because they served our ancestors (not really a blank slate) Nature (environment) selects the best to survive. Interested in psychological thresholds and speed of mental processes. Studied basic elements of consciousness via introspection (cid:862)what"s (cid:455)our (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of it? (cid:863) Introspection: method used by the structualists to examine consciousness, involves carful e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es. The whole is more than the sum of the parts. The parts are differe(cid:374)t (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455)"re apart (cid:448)s. together *look at the (cid:449)hole thi(cid:374)g*