PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Psychological Science, Scientific Method, Scientific Control

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

For most of recorded history going back to the greeks and even further, humans tried to understand the world. It"s only in the last 200 years that these mysteries have become open books to us: things like nature and structure of space and time. The constitution of matter, the many forms of energy, the nature of life itself with the discovery of dna and the decoding of human genome. Those of the things in aristotle"s time or in. Newton"s time would"ve seemed unimaginable that we"ve come this far: one of the last frontiers, one of the remaining mysteries is the human mind and the nature of human thought, human conscious experience and human behavior. Some of you are enrolled in the arts. If you look on the mcgill web page or mcgill course offerings bulletin, you"ll see that psychology is in the faculty of science, not in arts.