PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Materialism, Clinical Neuropsychology

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

Document Summary

Fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images. Structuralism - edward titchener founded the idea that psychology should be based on the notion that the task of the eld is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Mostly concerned perception in vision, hearing and touch. Used the method introspection - the careful systematic self-observation of ones own conscious experience. Functionalism - william james believed that it should be based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather than its structure. Based off the idea of natural selection, meaning that our consciousness serves an. Functionalism in uenced two more modern studies behaviourism and applied: Behaviourism - founded by john b. watson, this thought is a theoretical orientation based on the premise that scienti c psychology should study only observable behaviours. Abandon the study of consciousness all together and focus on behaviours.