PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gustav Fechner, Blind Experiment, Hermann Von Helmholtz

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

Document Summary

What is psychology: definition: study of mental and behavioural processes, also the science of the brain b/c without no train of thought or behaviour. Careers: clinical psychologists: diagnose and treat, applied psychologists: apply learning to broader spectrum i. e advertisement, but they all work to understand behaviour. Identify several fields in which psychologists may work: outline some of the questions psychologists ask, describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Founding fathers: wihelm wundt and william james: w on smaller elements of human experience, j on benefits of different attributes, both of these fall under empiricism. Structuralism: breakdown phenomena into smallest components, if know smallest components will know whole, most important part is analysis of elements, psychophysics: relationship between outside stimuli and our perception, hermann von. Helmholtz, ernest weber, gustav fechner, philosophical questions looked at through a scientific lens.