PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Radical Behaviorism, Edward B. Titchener, Mental Chronometry

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Topher Logan

Document Summary

Tuesday august 30, 2016- thursday september 1, 2016. General speaking: scientific study of behavior + mental processes: science of mind +behavior, knowing + experiencing, experimental epistemology, of things that move on own: sub fields: Recognition is not the same as recall, not strong measurement for true knowledge. Survey: skim/scan before actual reading, preparing, look at headlines and outlines. Question: ask ?"s the text can answer + write responses. Read: look for the answers to ?"s +read manageable amounts. Rehearse: recall what was read in own meaning + quiz urself. Review: look over text + notes + main ideas of chapter. Bonus r : write concept + answers then make connections. Nativists: certain knowledge innate, certain concepts and method you are born w knowledge defined by abil. Aristotle (philosophical empiricism d. 322 bc) idea of empiricism learn knowledge, not born w it. Franz gall (physiologist 1810) traced mental func.