PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Psychophysics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Also the science of the brain b/c without no train of thought or behaviour. Applied psychologists: apply learning to broader spectrum i. e advertisement. Identify several fields in which psychologists may work. Describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Pursuit of truth through reason and logic i. e socrates and plato discussing if everything we see is reality through logic and reason (no b/c to parallel lines meet in distance) Probs from physiologists who pursued scientific answers to philosophical questions. Parsimony: accepting the simplest testable solution to account for all evidence. W on smaller elements of human experience, j on benefits of different attributes. Breakdown phenomena into smallest components, if know smallest components will know whole. Psychophysics: relationship between outside stimuli and our perception, hermann von. Helmholtz, ernest weber, gustav fechner, philosophical questions looked at through a scientific lens. Emphasis the purpose of each trait and process.