PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilhelm Wundt, B. F. Skinner, Psychophysics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

The belief that we see the world precisely as it is. The scientific study of the mental processes and behaviour. In an attempt to understand, predict, and in some cases control human behaviour. Levels of analysis: social culture influences - social/behavioural level, psychological - mental/neurological, biological - molecular/neurochemical. The five main challenges of psychology: behaviour is difficult to predict, predictors are rarely independent, people are different from one another. Prejudice/stereotype can stem from thinking everyone is alike: people influence one another, behaviour is shaped by culture. With multiply determined factors, those factors in turn influence each other as well. People differ from each other in thinking, emotion, personality, and behaviour. That"s why we respond differently to the same objective situation. Reciprocal determinism we mutually influence each other"s behaviour. Philosophy is the study of knowledge and reality. This discourse was the beginning of modern processes of scientific enquiry.