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

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Basic time management: identify your best time for study, study difficult subjects first, use distributed learning, make sure environment supportive, set time for your social life, set time to sleep and eat, combine activities. Look at how people think and remember. Consider everything in context, everything is changed by the environment around. Modern examples: carl rogers" therapy, the self (how do you perceive the self can help people seek full potential) Focus on neural and chemical basis of behaviour. Mind is constructed by brain by understanding the brain the mind can be understood. Norms, group process how people behave in groups, is different for every culture. Modern examples: cross cultural psychology, issues in development, disorders, thinking. Rene descartes: how people respond to stimuli reflex arc. Wilhelm wundt: establish first psychological laboratory 1879, founder of psychology. William james: believed he was founder of psychology, established a lab 8 months after wundt, wrote the first textbook of psychology, functionalist.