PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Ethnocentrism, Applied Psychology, Empiricism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

He argued that psychology should be the scientific study of consciousness. He set up the first research lab in germany in 1879. Psychology: is the study of behaviour and the physiological and cognitive process that underlie it. The battle of the schools : structuralism : edward titchener. Psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Identify and examine components of conscious experience (i. e. sensations, images, feelings) Structuralism was mostly concerned with sensation and perception in vision, hearing and touch. Depended on introspection -> a systematic self-observation of one"s own conscious experience: functionalism : william james. Investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather than structure. Argues structuralists missed the real nature of conscious experience. Influenced by charles darwin"s theory of natural selection. Functionalism had more impact on psychology: behaviourism : john watson. Scientific psychology should only study observable behaviour. Abandons the study of consciousness and solely focus on observable behaviour.