PSYS 100 Lecture 1: Psychology

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 100
• Professor: Forbey

Document Summary

Structuralism : wudnt, titchener and others aimed to identify the basic elements of the psychological experience, wudnt developed rst psychology lab, map the elements of consciousness(senses images) using. Findings lacked reliability: underscored importance of the systematic observations , hard to quantify, not a number scale with lights for example. People described but they never really ranked it therefore there was no common ground. But this was an attempt to understand the mind! It was like the wild west in terms in what they would say. Structuralism: systematic observations, being able to get results that are standardized, not based on casual informal observations, need to be repeatable under same or similar conditions, reliable doesn"t mean its great ! Functionalism : aimed to understand the adaptive purposes (instead of elements) of. Psychological characteristics (behavior, emotions, thoughts): william james, said mental events could be quanti ed via description of the conscious experience(introspection) and other techniques, a little more systematic, not substantially so !