PSYC 1010 Lecture 2: PSYC 1010 MIDTERM NOTES (Autosaved)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: David Gold

Document Summary

Ch. 1-4: psychology: psyche=soul, logos=the study of , adopted and emphasized the importance of the scientific method in researching and evaluating human behaviour and the important implied issues that confront us, contemporary psychology examines old philosophical ideas (experimental. Philosophy: researchers need to ask precise questions about issues (cognitive and. Wilhelm wundt research (physiologist: founder of psychology as a discipline, established first formal lab for psychology, as well as first publishing journal of psychology, psychology= science (physics and chemistry, conciousness. Stewart hall: established america"s 1st psychology research lab and journal, founder/president of apa. Based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into. Based on the belied that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure its basic elements and investigate how the elements are related. Introspection: the careful, systematic self- observation of one"s own conscious experience. Cons: limitations as there is no independent objective evaluation of a claim.