PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sport Psychology, Community Psychology, Human Computer
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Psychology is the science of mind and the behaviour: mind = all mental processes and subjective experiences that make up your sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, motives, and emotions, behaviour = observable actions. Structuralism: proposed that psychology should focus on the elements of conscious thought and perception. Functionalism: focused on what conscious thoughts were for, rather than what they were made of. Reductionism: breaking a problem into successively smaller pieces, they were both losing sight of the big questions and losing the ability to answer them in a meaningful way. Principle of totality: the study of any conscious experience must simultaneously take into account all of the mental and physical aspects of the individual. Principle of psychophysical isomorphism: stated that there was a systematic relation between any conscious experience and physical events occurring in the brain and central nervous system. Repression: a way for the conscious mind to defend itself from trauma and con ict.
