PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Margo Wilson, Donald O. Hebb
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Use of scientific methods to help explain behaviour. Psych. is also about how people are able to perceive colour, how hunger is regulated by the brain, whether chimpanzees can use language to communicate Physiology informs us about those life phenomena that we perceive by our external senses. In psych, the person looks upon himself as from within and tries to explain the interrelationships of those processes that this internal observation discloses. Wanted to make psych. an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. Est. first formal lab for research in psychology at the university of leipzig in 1879. Said the new psych. should be a science modelled after fields such as physics and chem. Psych"s primary focus > consciousness (the awareness of immediate experience). Focus on the mind and mental processes: stanley hall (1846-1924) *contributor to the rapid growth of psychology in america. America"s first research lab @ johns hopkins university in 1883.
