PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habituation, Western Philosophy, Psychophysics

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

Document Summary

Psychology: the science of behaviour and mental processes. Topic 1: who are they and what do they do: what do psychologists do, research in neuroscience (perception, memory , social-personality (how people act in groups, developmental (childhood growth) This was questioned was answered through rationalism : the pursuit of truth through reason and logic: ex: plato put forward the question do our perceptions equal reality? . While technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes: natural selection, works in 3 ways: Characteristics vary among individual members of a species. Characteristics are passed from parents to offspring. The child is getting habituated, looks at the stimulus for a few seconds and then looks away. To be habituated: 1st she has to see, 2nd she has to be able to control where her eye aim, 3rd most impressive she has to recognize the repeated object. Habituation shows us that this baby"s memory is already functioning.