PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reverse Psychology, List Of Muppets, Empiricism

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

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Fields: few actually become people who diagnose others and whatnot, many become researchers, teachers. Others work in advertising, communications, business and human resources, as well as governmental and community service. Ones that are non-academic or non- clinical are referred to as applied psychologists. Define: *empiricism this revolves around what we can observe and measure. Structuralism and functionalism in relation to empiricism . Structuralism breaking complex phenomena down to their smallest components and then studying these components. If all parts are understood, the bigger picture will be understood. Functionalism the examination of behaviors, traits and perceptions by asking what are they for? this was influenced by charles darwin and evolutionary thought. In other words, analyzing something by looking at its functions. A theory"s success is measured by its ability to explain past observations and predict future results. Cause a phenomenon of interest occurs if and only if the cause if present.