PSY100H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Intro to psychology: history & overview of psychology. Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology is scientific because it is based on empiricism. Empiricism is a term used by john locke and means that our only source of knowledge comes from senses which helped with the argument of logic and reasoning. **knowledge from what we"ve seen and experienced** Psychology is a recent field that was introduced less than 150 years ago (the first experimental class at uoft started at 1890 (uoft is home to the first psych class in canada and britain) Comes from a greek word for the study of the psyche or soul. In the late 1800"s both physiologists and philosophers were investigating the. Ideas of about the acquisition of knowledge. How are sensations turned into mental awareness of the outside. B. f. skinner (1904 - 1990) stimulus-response pairing. Focused on observable behaviors and ignoring cognition thinking about the scientific part instead of cognition.
