PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn, Psychological Science

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Marco Preussner

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Ghazal naimi: buy the textbook, read chapter one on your own with notes. Very important to read: the course will be recorded with slides. Not expected as they are. (the example from williams & bargh, 2008). Sensation must have felt better since it was warmer ice=don"t want to hold onto it. Question and reflect on the things that you are being told. Critical thinking: systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable conclusions. Researchers found listening to mozart led research participants to score higher on a test related to intelligence (rauscher, shaw, & ky, 1993) Subsequent research largely failed to get the same results. A review of studies testing the mozart effect showed that listening to. Mozart is unlikely to increase intelligence (chabris, 1999) Trace the development of psychology since its formal inception in 1879. Define the nature/nurture debate and the mind/body problem. Identify the major schools of thought that have characterized the history of experimental psychology.