PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Cultural Psychology, Psych
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Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. It has an emphasis on science: emphasis on getting evidence to back up the studies of human behaviour, behaviour. Anything about a human that we can measure: thought processes. What you can"t measure and cannot see? e. g. how you make decisions. However, you can measure the speed of your mental processes, etc. Origins: who am i? , 400 bc. Were interested in the mind, memory, self, mind, and body: 1500s-1700s. Associationism : when 2 neurons fire up, those two lock into a pathway, which affects how you think about an issue, 1800s. Gall, broca, and wernike early medicine brain, mind, and memory their research began the localization of function. Certain parts of the brain are for certain behaviours: 1879. Wundt science of behaviour first lab in europe focus on sensation, consciousness, introspection. What is your conscious experience of the visual world: 1892.
