PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychodynamics, Behaviorism, Endocrine System
5 Apr 2016
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Psychology is derived: psyche: soul, spirit, or mind, logos: study of a subject. Behavior is the means by which organisms adjust to their environment. Not just human behavior, psychology is concerned with the study of behavior more generally. Scieniic methodology: key: psychology is a science, research, lab work, research papers, staisics and research methods. Develop theories or models of behavior: predicion. Theories/ models lead to accurate predicions: control. Wilhlem wundt (1832- 1920: psychology as an independent ield. Advocated scieniic methodology: studied basic processes of sensaion, percepion. Titchner and structuralism: scieniic methods to study consciousness, objecive introspecion. The what of mental constructs: structuralism: structure of the mind/ behavior. Measurement: examples of the just noiceable diference". William james and funcionalism: funcion or purpose of consciousness rather than structure. Should not have special status" when explaining behavior. Don"t need to use them to develop theories predict and control. Freud and psychodynamics behavior: cohort of watson, human behavior is driven by strong, internal forces.
