PSYCH 1X03 Lecture : Psychology
22 Nov 2012
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Applied psychology: using psychological theories to solve problems. Experimental psychology: work in university research, find answers to human thoughts and behaviors. Psychology: this comes from the word psych which in greek means soul and logos which means study of. Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. Muller discovered that messages transmitted nerves were coded as electrical impulse traveling along different channels. Flourens learned which brain region controlled heart rate, breathing and visual and auditory reflexes. Helmholtz measured speed of nerve impulses: unit 3: introduction and levels of analysis o, there are multiple levels of analysis. Psychological analysis includes thoughts, emotions, memory, patters or thinking. Biological analysis includes physiological mechanisms of underlying process of the body (genetic factors, hormones). Introduction to environmental analysis includes social, cultural + learning perspectives. For watson anything happening inside someone"s head was unobservable and therefore off limits if psychology was to progress as a science.
