PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Environmental Psychology, Behaviorism

• School: Towson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Barbara Wilson

Document Summary

Psychology: scienti c study of behavior and mental processes! Mental processes: thoughts, feelings, motives that we experience privately, cannot be ob- served ! Skeptical people challenge whether a fact is true ! They question what everyone knows (ex. women are inferior to men)! Use the empirical method to learn - the empirical method is gaining information through obser- vations, collecting data, logical reasoning! History of psychology has it roots in! how was the discipline of psychology come to be! Psychology grew out of this tradition of thinking about the body and mind! German philosopher and also a physician ! reports from the participants in a controlled laboratory! Current physiological : biological, behavioral , psychodynamic! In 1879 he established the rst psychology lab initially because he wanted to study the ! workings of the brain and how mental processes could be measured. He was intent on identifying the structures of the mind- structures of mental processes!