PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Gestalt Psychology, Materialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Hardt

Document Summary

If one sender stops working, the other becomes more dominant. Materialism brain = mind (brain produces mind) Mind constructs world out of sensory signals. Psychological science discipline concerned with the study of behavior and the mental and physiological processes that regulate behavior. But related to empirical & non-empirical disciplines: artificial intelligence, neuroscience, a(cid:374)thropology, li(cid:374)guisti(cid:272)s, et(cid:272). Windt psychology is the discipline studying conscious experience. Worked to turn psychology as an independent discipline (outside medicine, philosophy) Established first lab psychology: scientific discipline. Sensations raw sensory content of consciousness, without meaning. All conscious thoughts and perceptions combinations of sensations. Structuralism basic elements form the constituents of more complex mental events (inspired by chemistry) James psychology is the science of mental life. The emphasis in psychology should be on the purpose and utility of behavior. S: the task of psychology analyse consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related.