PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Hindsight Bias

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Amanda Clark

Document Summary

Scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. Behaviour anything we can observe and record. Mental processess internal & subjective experiences. Knowledge is aquired and stored in memories. Sensations, images, fantasies and imagination: cognition. Fluid in brain, animal spirit" flows directly to the muscles to produce movement. Phrenology: shape and curvature of skull reveals person mental faculites and character traits. Used introspection (looking inward) to serach for the minds structural elements. Unreliable because its results varies from person to person. Focues on how our mental and behaviour process function. Should be an objective science (agreed with) Studies behaviour without reference to mental processes. Humanistic psychology: emphasized growth potential of healthy people. Cognitive neuroscience: interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition. Empiricism: knowledge comes from experiences: learned through the senses. Nativism: learning is based on innate predispositions (genetics) Amoung the range of inherited traits, those that contribute to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed to succeeding generations.