PSYC 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dufferin Roblin, Scientific American, Psychology Today
9 May 2019
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Friday may 24th make-up psych class: research producers and consumers, producers, gov"t, uni, consumers. Salt is bad for you, jogging is good: authority, someone in the know telling you what it is and relying on that. Plane crashes: trust your instincts , rationalism, beliefs arrived at through logic and rational thought, if this happens, then that will happen , not quick thinking, following basic logic, assumes an argument based on sound facts, ie. Earth thought of as centre of universe: on its own can be limited, empiricism, gathering evidence to answer a question, ie. Ate salt once and bp went up, therefore salt increases bp: ie. Immanuel kant: structuralism, science of the mind goal to legitimize the study of psych, wilhelm wundt, 1st experimental psych lab (1879, goal to make psych a science that would be taken seriously. Introduced technique of introspection: studied sensations, how we view outside world, ie.
