PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins, Behavioural Genetics
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Things i need to know for psychology midterm 1. Prologue: what is psychology, psychological science is born, aristotle asked the right questions but had the wrong answers, first psychological laboratory: mesures time lag between ball hitting floor and ability to press a key. People had to (cid:498)atoms of the mind(cid:499) (cid:523)fastest and simplest mental process(cid:524: functionalism: our body parts do what they do because they"re report elements of their experience while doing simple stuff like looking at flower. To reveal the structure of the human mind. Promoted by james, influenced by darwin: first women in psychology: mary whiton calkins and margaret. Cognitive neuroscience: brain activity underlying mental activity: modern definition of psychology: science of behavior (anything we do and can record) and mental processes (internal experiences: dreams, thoughts, sensation, perception, contemporary psychology, evolutionary psychology and behavior genetics. Plato: we inherit character and intelligence but some ideas are inborn. Aristotle: everything comes form the external world first.
