Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wilder Penfield, Mary Whiton Calkins, Karl Lashley

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Atkinson

Document Summary

Thought pineal gland was spot for divine intervention: gustav fechner. Wanted to know how to measure human sensory abilities: wilhelm wundt. Was a structuralist (not ideal way to look @ psych: william james. Wrote first textbook in psych: mary calkins, sigmund freud. Encountered patients who had problems he could not explain. Learn by getting rewarded or punished: jean piaget, jean piaget. Biological pioneer: wolfgang k hler, kurt levin. Psych evolves in a social-cultural historical context (since ppl evolve, rule of psych change) Festinger - . 00 vs . 00 : people who liked the study more was . 00, justify your behaviour when you have good. Identify the problem and formulate hypothesis a. b. Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation b/w 2 or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypotheses e. g, theory of. Relativity: compare freudian theory and behaviour theory i. Freudian theory is hard to test, cannot test unconscious; behaviour theory is testable, therefore better.