PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Unconscious Mind, Psychological Science

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: Christopher Jagiela

Document Summary

Psychological science is born: structuralism, wundt and titchener experiments at leipzig, germany in 1879, behavior is due to structure, functionalism, william james influenced by darwin, opposing structuralism, behavior is due to function, the unconscious mind, freud. Psychology today: scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Contemporary psychology: nature, darwin, nature selects traits that enable survival in organisms, nurture, environment influences traits. Biological influences: genetic predispositions, genetic mutations, natural selection of adaptive physiology and behaviors, genes responding to environment. Learned fears and other learnt expectations: emotional responses, cognitive processing and perceptual interpretations. Social-cultural influences: presence of others, cultural, societal, and family expectations, peer and other group influences, compelling models (such as media) Research strategies: how psychologists ask and answer questions. Intuition and common sense: sometimes aid queries, though not free of error, hindsight bias, knew it all along , tend to believe we would have known outcome.