PSY4111 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 – Psychological Perspectives
24 Jul 2018
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Mental processes thoughts, emotions, interactions between the two. The goals of scientific psychology are to describe behaviour, predict future behaviour and explain the causes of behaviour. Change blindness attention is diffused over a picture, we will only remember what we are paying attention to, even over very short intervals of retention. Milgrams study of obedience to authority a volunteer administered shocks of voltage to the. Deduced that four main things affect obedience to authority; Perceived authority of the person giving the orders. People are more willing to obey if they can shift the responsibility to someone else. Introspection metaphor or looking inwards to examine one"s own conscious experience or phenomenology. Wilhelm wundt (leipzig) trained observers to report their experiences. Was seen to be very unreliable and was challenged by behaviourism. Functionalism, by william james, emphasised the analysis of psychological processes in terms of their function. For example, attention served to concentrate analysis on certain stimuli.
