PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Scientific Theory, Psychological Science

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Kim Elizabeth

Document Summary

Not common sense authority: false: to change the way people act, you must first change their attitudes. Dartmouth thought it was rough and fair: had students watch recording and rate infractions (rules were broken) Whether beliefs about the game influenced beliefs when they watched it. Princeton students found a lot more infractions made by dartmouth. Those with success feedback were more likely to say they"d be good than those who received failure feedback. Even though there was no validity to the feedback they received, they still believed it in part. In 1879, wilhelm wundt developed the first psychology laboratory in. Germany (institute for experimental psychology: trained as medical doctor, 1860s: taught first classes in psychology, searched for scientific explanation of the human mind, prolific writer and trained many researchers. Theoretical framework of psychology aimed to find unifying perspective to best explain behavior: structuralism, scientific goal: identify the basic elements of experience;