PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Supreme Court Of Canada, John Lydon, Bertha Wilson

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: John Lydon

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Write down 5 things you would use to describe yourself to the rest of the class. Hardworking, charismatic, smart, funny, easy to get along with. Now think of being home for the holidays and being introduced to your sister"s boyfriend. List 5 things to describe yourself to this person. Now think of being introduced to a friend of a friend at a bar. Hypothesis: people may have the same five things because the situation doesn"t matter in the way people view themselves. We may be trying to impress someone at the bar, for example. You may be more likely to list your major if you weren"t a psyc major because it"s likely most people in the room are. William james is considered the father of experimental psychology in north america. He wrote a huge volume on the concept and he wrote about sensation, perception, etc. His brother, henry james, was an author who was a great psychologist.