PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Revolution, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Psychologies
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Recap: so so far we have been learning about how psychology has grew partly on the people who were saying/ tryna prove that you can scientifically study what is going on in the mind. The biology that supported it, then we talked about the psychophysicists who showed data that was scientific in relation to the mind. When psychology started it was about seeing the internal world in reflection to the external world. What is the context of your mind; what"s actually happening in their. Dawr: stop looking at what things look like, but the process that produce the experience: called functionalism. Herman von adam house: research on memory and forgetting. He was interested in the process of information leaving our mind and what that means. Up until this time nobody was interested in mental illness/ clinical psychology. So far we think that a psychologist"s is someone who tries to help people that are struggling with their existence.
