PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychology Today, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Robin Langerak

Document Summary

Chapter preview: chapter 1 contains three main sections, 1. Learning outcomes: structuralism vs. functionalism: roots and results of this debate, contextual history of behaviorism & psychoanalytic theory and the field"s response to these paradigms, psychology today: where the above brought modern psychology. Last time: main takeaway last week: psychology is a science and science is defined by its method, not its topic of study. Approaching psychology: applying the empirical approach to understanding and predicting behaviour was the predecessor to psychology, one of the first recorded uses of precise empirical measurement was hemholz in 1851, who studied vision by measuring reaction times. Mehreen syed: rt is an index of mental processing still used today. Mehreen syed: selection states that behaviours producing favourable outcomes are passed on as a result of an individual"s survival: consciousness must be a favourable trait that we keep passing on. Structuralism: edward titchner, elemental composition of consciousness, introspection, physiology.