PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Wilhelm Wundt, Neuron

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

Document Summary

Physics is actually math : the focus: behaviour, defined as any action that can observed, recorded, and measured. Clinical psychologist: diagnosing and treating people with mental disorders: advertising, communications, business and human resources, governmental and community service, and much, much more. Roots in western philosophy originating from ancient greeks (socrates, plato, Plato"s writing q"s on do our perception equal reality? . Empiricism approach through observation, quantification, and principle of parsimony: parsimony accepting simplest testable solution that accounts for all available evidence. Psychophysics by hermann von helmholtz (german research: research on how perceptual organs gain information, tried to answer plato"s question about can we accurately perceive reality , use of psychophysics approaches (measuring light intensity stimulus) Focused on advantages resulting from different human attributes. Focused on smaller elements making up human experience. Looked at the parts that make up the whole. Focus on the purpose of behaviours, traits, and perception. Focus = what is the purpose of behaviours.