PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes . Talking, sleeping, running, eating, reading, aggression, reproductive behaviour. Inter private experiences, brain is running many mental processes; accomplishing a function, sensing and perceiving. Physical sciences come from philosophy, science takes reason and throws in observations, test your theories and predictions. Perspective in psych to understand mind, atoms of the mind , find components of these processes; how they work together to process. How different do two lights have to be before one can tell which is brighter? . Interested in the composition of mental processes. Speed of the simplest mental processes, e. g. recognition. Reaction time is slower when there are many mental processes. Mind consists of mental processes like detection, recognition, auditory experiences, etc. Focused on the basic structural elements of conscious, mental experiences. Observation and reporting of one"s mental experiences. Reflecting upon your experiences, breaking down your experiences into their component parts.