PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neuroticism, Oedipus Complex, Kurt Lewin

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: online

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience. Scientific method: a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations for these observations, developing theories to explain them and using their theories to hypothesize. Structuralism: an attempt to analyze conscious experiences by breaking it down into basic elements and understanding how it works together. Functionalism: study of the purpose and functions of behaviour and conscious experiences, Behaviourism: singular focus on studying only observable behaviours with little to no reference to mental events or instincts as possible influences on behaviour, Gestalt psychology: an approach that psychologists need to focus on the whole of perception and experience rather than its parts. The 3 beginnings of psychology: 1. Psychiatry had no training in psychology: 2. Heavy biological influence on much of the testing tradition, You can divide thoughts into mental atoms: william james: Student of wundt and contemporary of freud, Brought psychology to na: john b. watson,