PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Regional Policy Of The European Union, Wilhelm Wundt
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Ps101 lecture 1 psychology is the study of behaviour and mental processes such as thought and emotion. Levels of analysis when studying certain behaviour or mental process, study the in uences of: i. the brain - neural activity ii. the person - emotions, ideas, thoughts iii. the group - friends, family, culture. Philosophers were the ones arguing about what it is to be human , alive , and to. Belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements. Goal: understand how the simplest elements of structure of conscious experience combine to create more complex perceptions and behaviours. What they did in their experiments: reaction times, attention span, perception of visual stimuli, touch and hearing. Two schools of thought: structuralism 101: (titchener student of wundt) belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements. Could identify the structures (i. e chemistry water = h2o) Used introspection (method of studying human experiences, simple thoughts into complex ideas)
