PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Counseling Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Heritability
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Goals of this course: broad overview of major topics: foundation for future courses, 2. Asks questions about human behaviour: differs from natural sciences. Answers them in a structured way: differs from humanities. It is the science of behaviour and mental processes . Process of collecting knowledge: systematic and controlled measurements. Deals with repeatable and observable phenomena: not morals, values, past events (e. g. , spanking, abortion) behaviour. Infer internal experiences from behaviour: e. g. , memory (case example: depression) Aristotle and plato: observations & guesses about psyche (first recorded to try and figure out why we do what we do and why we think the way we do) Wilhelm wundt (1832-1920): first psychology laboratory and first controlled observations. From germany, primarily looking at human reaction times. Edward titchener (1867-1927): structuralism discover mind"s structure and introspection; unreliable. William james (1842-1910): functionalism purpose of minds" functions and first psychological textbook.
