PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Telegraph Key, Wilhelm Wundt, Gustav Fechner
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Psych midterm notes- chapter 1 (pg 1-13 or 1. 1-1. 3) What are the 4 goals of scientific inquiries? (goals studying mental process & How brain structure and brain cell activity differ from person to. The levels of analysis in psychology (mental process, behaviour) The brain: person and situation to situation (neural activity) The group: (friends, family, culture: culture- a set of shared beliefs and practices that are transmitted across generations. How the content of the individual"s mental processes form and. How behaviour is shaped by the social and cultural environments. Francis bacon: regarded as the creator of empiricism, empiricism- view that all knowledge originates in experience. 2: theory influenced by descartes and bacon. Wednesday, october 12, 2016: believed we learn by our experiences, born with blank page and acquire knowledge through experience. Johannes muller: area of psychophysics, study the relationship between physical stimuli and their psychological effects (that is the sensations and perceptions they affect)
