PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Revolution, Empiricism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Psychology: the scienti c study of behaviour, thought, and experience. Behaviour - how you behave, act, move. Economics: an assumption of the general public. Labs: 20%; 20/22 best; 7 missed = fail. Quizzes: 5%; 10/12 best online lessons: 5hrs/wk labs, quizzes 3hrs/wk lecture: 2 hrs/wk. Operationalization: process of de ning a fuzzy concept to make more understandable. Trying to nd truth through reason and logic. Universal statements cannot be result of nite observations. Testing and getting same results around the world. Applied to questions about perception, thinking and behaviour. Believe that people describe world by rules made by their observation, quali cation, and principle of parsimony. Measurement of relationship between changes of magnitude of the physical energy to a stimulus and sensation of changes in stimulus magnitude. The feeling we get due to change (changes from stimulation) Rationalism is how we generate hypotheses that we can then empirically test. Fathers of psychology: william james and wilhelm wundt.