PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Experimental Psychology, Scientific Method
19 Jun 2017
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Scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Use of empiricism and the scientific method: origin of psychology is a scientific discipline, wilhelm wundt formally founding experimental psychology. Multiple factors on behavior: no simple explanation of why someone feels a certain way, biophysical model idea that behavior is a product of biological, psychological and social-cultural factors. Different factors contribute to it eg. (biological its cold out, psychological you enjoy the class, social your friends are talking about it) The mind being adaptive (flexible, changing, not static: evolutionary adaptions that have shaped the human brain over thousands of years, eg, regular meditation can strengthen and weaken certain connections or pathways in the brain. Experience is subjective: no one sees the world in an objective state, our experiences are shaped by our beliefs, biases, history and culture, eg. Seeing letters and associate it with a colour (synesthesia)
