PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Collectivism, Ethnocentrism
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Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Interactive dualism: (rene descartes) mind and body are separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions, and other conscious experiences: nature vs. nurture. Role of physiology (biology that studies functions and parts of living organisms: use scientific methods. Wilhelm wundt: founder of psychology: used scientific methods to study fundamental psychological processes, 1874 turning point book, relationship between physiology and psychology. Edward b. titchener: structuralism: 1st major school of thought in psychology, all experiences can be broken down into elemental structures of sensations and feelings. Introspection: view a simple stimulus (ex. book) and then reconstruct sensations & feelings immediately after viewing: stimulus: anything perceptible to senses sight, sound, touch, etc. Introspection was too limited: unreliable and couldn"t be used to study children/animals or complex topics: view consciousness as a structure at a given moment.
