PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Wilhelm Wundt, Psychometrics
21 Nov 2017
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Scienti c study of human behaviour and the mind. Ultimate goal is to learn something about humans, psychology may do experiments with animals draw parallels with human behaviour, or to draw similarities between animals and humans. 3. science: vs. common sense, anecdote, intuition, logic, empirical method of studying mind and behaviour, systematic pursuit of knowledge though observation. Applied areas of psychology: industrial/organizational, educational/school, counselling, clinical. Research areas of psychology: psychometrics, personality, developmental, experimental, cognitive, physiological, social, educational, health. 4. in uence: change/control what people do/think/feel, to improve people"s lives - ethical obligation to help, best way to test explanations of causes. Physiology: evidence for mind-body links, scienti c method. Early schools of thought (late 19th century ) focused on consciousness applied scienti c method (systematic experimentation: structuralism, rst school of thought in psychology, in uenced by wundt"s work. 2. functionalism (purpose: emerged as a reaction to structuralism, in uenced by darwin"s theory of evolution.
