PSYC 10213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener
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Social-cultural: how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures. Cognitive: how the information we encode, process, store, and retrieve influence behavior. Biopsychology: how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. Behavior genetics: how much of our genes and our environment influence our individual differences. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior anything we do that can be observed and recorded. Mental processes internal, subjective experiences, such as thoughts and feelings. Aimed to identify the basic structures of psychological experience. Used introspection as a tool to uncover these structures. Aimed to identify the function or adaptive significance of psychological characteristics. Used questions of why rather than what. It is (cid:271)eautiful, (cid:271)ut it is (cid:374)ot ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455),(cid:863) -wilhelm wundt. (cid:862)ple(cid:374)t(cid:455) of s(cid:272)hool, (cid:271)ut (cid:374)o thought(cid:863) (cid:894)ja(cid:373)es, (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)4(cid:895) Focuses on uncovering the general laws of learning by looking at observable behavior. Stressed a strict scientific approach to psychology must be objective.
