PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abusive Power And Control, Psychology Today, Cultural Psychology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Genevieve Quintin

Document Summary

Cognitive process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, Psychology: psychology study of mental processes and behaviours, applying that knowledge to human life (like mental dysfunction, education, and, mental processes activities of tour brain when its thinking, observing the environment. 1890, james mark baldwin agreed with william and created first psychology in in the. Psychoanalysis great growth in psychology field because everyone became interested unconscious mind thoughts, feelings and sensations outside human awareness: sigmund freud viennese neurologist. Structuralists would ask participant to provide introspection report on his/her conscious experience of the sound. Interested in how children unconsciously adopt social and moral norms from their parents and develop a conscious awareness of what are acceptable and unacceptable expressions of their internal desires. Later, the dogs also salivated when lab assistants appeared (food, or no food): dogs were conditioned to associate food (stimulus) with another (lab assistant) and responded in the same way to both.