PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Experimental Psychology, Spirit Possession

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Stephen Want

Document Summary

We have the largest geographic range of any land mammal on earth. Human beings are interesting because we radically modify our environments. Our bodies are not powerful, compared to other animals (no special defences or talents. ) But our distinctive power is in our minds: some common misconceptions about psychology. Reading people"s minds: the different types of psychologist, a rough guide to studying the mind, some administrative information, tracing the evolution of psychological thought, understanding the modern focus of psychology. So what is psychology o mind and of behaviour: an academic discipline a major subject of scientific study in colleges and universities, aimed at discovering how the mind works and what determines how people behave. So, psychology is a science that tries to figure out how the human mind works, and ultimately, how it enables us to do all the remarkable things that we do. How do our minds enable us to think, taste, learn & remember, speak and do math.