PSYC 1010 Midterm: Test 1 Review- Chapters 1, 2, 12, and Appendix B

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Includes sensations, feelings, and images (conscious experience: founded by edward titchener, vision, hearing, and touch, depend on introspection- the careful, systematic self-observation of one s own conscious experience. Investigate mental testing, patterns of development in children, effectiveness of educational practices, and behavioural differences between sexes y behaviourism was founded by john b. watson y. Industrial and organizational psychology y psychiatry- branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders y seven key themes: psychology is empirical. empiricism- the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. psychologists conduct research to test their ideas; they are not content with having ideas that sound plausible. How do you know? : psychology is theoretically diverse. seek to explain and understand what they observe. theory- system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations. links apparently unrelated observations and tries to explain them.