PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Behavioral Modernity, Empiricism
4 Dec 2013
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Psychology: the scienti c study of behavior and the mind: behavior refers to actions ands responses we can directly observe, mind refers to internal thoughts and feelings that must be inferred. Basic research: the quest for knowledge purely for its own sake. Applied research: using knowledge to solve speci c practical problems. The three levels of analysis are at the biological level, the psychological level, and the environmental level. British empiricism, holds that all ideas and knowledge are empirically gained through the senses because observation is a more valid approach to knowledge than pure reason. They developed a eld called psychophysics, the study of how psychologically experienced sensations depend on characteristics of a physical stimuli. Nature-nurture is the problem that addresses which aspects effect human development more (environmental level and biological level). Structuralism: the analysis of the mind in terms of its basic elements. Sensations were studied and considered the basic elements of consciousness.
