Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cyclophosphamide, Sensory Deprivation, Intentionality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: barus

Document Summary

Introspection the technique/method of looking at what is happening subjectively: making up what you think is going on based on yourself and others. Inner observation looking directly at the mind. Retrospection looking at what just happened not what is going on. Looking at behaviour birth of philosophical behaviourism [connecting the input to the output the feeling to the behaviour] Limited by what we can conceptualize, people have taken cues from engineering. Experience sampling method report on their inner state as they go on. William james characteristics of thinking: the self is the attachment of things based on experience at any given moment notion of who you are, 5 characteristics of thinking; (1) thoughts are always personal every thought is apart of personal consciousness. (4) thought always appears to deal with objects independent of itself. (5) selectively attend to some objects more than others: can choose the object in which you think about.