PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Doctor Of Psychology, Edward B. Titchener, Psychophysics
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Psychology september 7, 2017 lecture 1. Therapists are under the category of clinical psychology. They are licensed normally carrying phd, edd, psyd: many psychologists are researchers. Most therapists are research focused: resea(cid:396)(cid:272)h allo(cid:449)s fo(cid:396) people to dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:449)hat is fa(cid:272)e, a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat is(cid:374)"t. There are two types of research: basic research new knowledge, exploring + advancing general scientific fact, animals, sensory, computer modeling, cellular, cognition/behaviours, applied research pu(cid:396)pose of sol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s (cid:395)uality of life. Psychophysics: encourage empirical methodologies and examinations, originated from sciences. Hippocrates: he was trying to define personality, health, and wellbeing. There were two major schools of thought: structuralism (titchener) Is that all experiences can be reduced into basic elements: the problem with the theory: Larger units are better than the smaller ones: seen in illusions, errors show we have a bias in perception. Psychology is a science, not just common sense: follows fundamental laws and principles, uses scientific methods to prove points.
