PSYC 1000 Lecture 1: Overview of psychology as Science

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Jan 12th 2017: what is psychology? (the brief answer) About understanding how mental processes (e. g. , thoughts) and behaviour are shaped by using a scientific approach. As william james referred to the nasty little subject . Artistole (4th century bce) asked questions to understand the relationship b/w body and p. Wilhem wundt (1832-1920) added two key elements to help make psychology a science: Titchener also relied on self-report data and introspection. He had people report on sensations and other elements of experience, in reaction to stimu. Titchner tried to use these introspective reports to build a model of the mind"s structure. Opposed the structuralism focus on introspection and search for smallest elements. He developed functionalism, focuses on the outcome of mental processes and behaviour. James studied human thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and questions such as. Focus on behaviours as the only way to derive general principles of psychology. Return to mental processes but using other approaches than introspection.