PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gestalt Psychology, Max Wertheimer, Edward B. Titchener
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior is any action that other people can observe or measure. Behaviors include sleeping, eating, heart rate, brain activity, etc. Perceptions, thoughts, feelings cognitive activities are mental processes which include dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories. Latent constructs - questions to find out answers. Some work involved objective introspection subjective feelings were thought to include emotional responses and mental images. Student of wundt that translated his work from german to english. Study of consciousness by trying to understand its smallest, most basic elements. Introspection of thoughts as well as physical objects. James focused on the relationships between experience and behavior and described his views in principles of psychology. James was interested in how humans and to their environment. He tried to understand thinking as a stream. Of ideas not a series of separate thoughts. When u study seperate parts you dont study the full thing and thats the prob.
