PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Statistical Inference, Cocktail Party

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 202
• Professor: Jeffrey B.Henriques I I I

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Drop in hours: t(228) th(225) 2:30-3:30 or by appointment. Tori (ra): t 4:00-5:00, f 3;00-4:00 in 527. The science of behavior and mental processes. Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. Established the first psych lab in 1879. Empiricism: we need data to support our ideas. Try to identify the structure and components of the mind. Introspection: a means to try to understand the brain. Took structuralism to the us (cornell university) The scientific study of behavior and its environmental determinants. Ex: you know a teacher is walking because you can see it, but you can"t tell by observation, what he is thinking while he"s walking. Dogs started to salivate when they heard the bell. The mind is a black box- you can"t understand it. Got into trouble w the trustees at john hopkins university. Took what he learned from psych and used it to be successful in manipulating consumers.