PSY 110 Lecture 99: PSYCH NOTES - ONE CLASS

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Psychology: scientific study of mind and behavior (cid:120) it"s a science because it uses the scientific method (cid:120) behavior, mind. The mind is the product of a healthy brain (cid:120) memories, thinking feeling (cid:120) motivates your behavior. Experimental research (cid:120) social social interactions (cid:120) personality psycho study of personality (cid:120) cognitive - mind (cid:120) developmental person"s growth and development (cid:120) physiological/medical/biological. Difference between experimental and applied, experimental is just for the sake of knowledge, applied is using it. Titchener wundt"s student, first american psychologist to teach this, School of structuralism: sir francis galton anthropometric, measures height and weight, breathing capacity, memory, etc. of citizens in. London, trying to prove that characteristics run in families, anthropometric lab measurement of people , co-relations math, used pearson"s correlation coefficient. William james philosopher, genius, american, principles of psychology, disagreed with titchener about school of structuralism, created school of. Functionalism, structure is not important, motivation is important. Introspection to look within, observe your own experiences,