PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Null Hypothesis, Edward B. Titchener, Electric Potential

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Psychology: logos (study) & psyche (the mind) Mental events : attention-consciousness, information processing, thought-language, memory & decision making (vague/abstract: cannot observe mental events. Psychology the study of mental events and behaviour. Began in physics (psychophysics): what/why of consciousness. Experimental psychology (late 1879): wilhem wundt (how psychology began: structuralism (wundt"s student) = edward titchener. Basic structure of the mind chemistry analogy. Retina in eye has receptors for 3 colors: red, green, blue. Not conscious of red/green receptors that activate areas of visual pathway to see the color yellow: introspection: looking inward & reflecting one own conscious experience, pragmatism (functionalism): william james (1rst major textbook psychology), philosophy of material/immaterial nature. Clinical psychology: psychotherapy, sigmund freud (psychoanalyst), founder (1940) Applied psychology: social, developmental, educational, industrial psychology. Cognitive: (19th century, revived 1950: william james, study of higher mental functions (memory, decision making, experiment pictures processed auto. even if told to ignore. Words no: psychologist cannot directly observe mental processes.