PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positive Psychology, Natural Selection, Wilhelm Wundt

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

Document Summary

Primary focus was consciousness (awareness of immediate experience) Invesigaion of mind via scieniic method: stanley hall contributed to rapid growth of psychology in the us structuralism vs functionalism, structuralism analyze consciousness into basic elements and how they"re related. Introspecion systemaic self-observaion of one"s own conscious experience funcionalism analyze funcion or purpose of consciousness (rather than its structure) Argued structuralism only studied staic parts of the stream of consciousness watson behaviourism behaviousrism scieniic. Abandon study of consciouness and only focus on observable behaviours o science rests on veriiabilityo argued for nurture instead of natureo simulus-response approach. Freud the unconscious: psychoanalyic theory explain personality, moivaion, and mental disorders by focusing on the unconscious. Renewed interest in cognition and physiology: cogniion mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge (involves conscious) congniion vs behaviour studies. Evolutionary psychology: evoluionary psychology examines behavioural processes in terms of their adapive value for a species over the course of many generaions.