PSYC 101 Lecture : Psychology Study Guide.docx

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Peter Graf

Document Summary

For clarity, cultural reasons (victory sign), science depends on operational definition. Psychology comes from: psyche: soul, spirit, mind; logos: study of a subject study of the mind, psychology rooted from philosophy, and physiology. G. stanley hall: established america"s first research lab in psychology, laughed america"s first psychology journal, established the american psychological association (apa) Structuralism (wilhelm wundt): based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related, analyze the fundamental components of conscious experience: : sensations, feelings, images: most work concerned sensations and perception in vision, hearing and touch, introspection: the careful, systematic self observation of ones" own conscious experience. Required training to make the individual more objective and aware. After, individual exposes to auditory tones, optical illusions and visual stimula and asked to analyze what they experienced. Limitation: no independent objective evaluation of that claim.