PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reductionism, Gestalt Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Ricci Lesley

Document Summary

The study of behavior and mental processes: promote the nature vs nurture discussion, scientific psychology. Introduce testable questions in order to draw conclusions ii. Data collection and analysis: testing a hypothesis to conclude, applied psychology i. Clinical practice: taking what we learn in scientific psychology and applying it to the human condition. Governed by dominant perspective and models: defines a field of investigation a. ii. Asking questions in a systematic way: following the rules of science, hypothesis i. People can easily follow your model in order to draw similar outcomes and conclusions: behavior i. Human ethology : the finite number of behaviors the body can exhibit: mental and physiological processes i. Not observable: history of psychology as a science, wilhelm wundt : structuralism, founder of scientific psychology, first research lab : germany, elements of consciousness, sensation, perception and emotion ii. Introspection to understand the nature of consciousness and immediate experience: produced structuralism, behavioral outcomes in response to stimulus iii.