PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Note-Taking, Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

The scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. People are generally unaware of the influences on their behavior. Although the seeds of psychology were planted long before he came along, wilhelm wundt is given the honor of formally founding experimental psychology: Historical (and modern) barriers to the recognition of psychology as a scientific discipline. Psychology research doesn"t exist in a bubble. E. g. , world war2 and social psychology; decade of the brain . There are no simple answers to why people think, feel and behave the way they do. Bio psychological model: idea that behavior is a product of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors, all of which can interact and influence each other. From evolutionary adaptations that have shaped the human brain over thousands of years, to your own personal experiences that can change your brain which in a tiny fraction of that time.