PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Falsifiability, Psych, Behaviorism

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Definition: (cid:498)scientific study of behaviour and mental processes(cid:499) (cid:494)behaviour(cid:495) = overt (cid:523)observable(cid:524) actions (cid:494)mental processes(cid:495) = thoughts (cid:523)memories / imagery(cid:524); emotions. Objective data collection: post-hoc explain common sense unfalsifiable. Hit or miss observation ineffective sampling. Change blindness: only remember what we pay attention to. Factors affecting obedience to authority: perceived authority of person giving orders, presence of contradicting authority, level of direct resp. for outcome, proximity of victim. Brief history of psych: emerged in part from philosophy, natural science, empirical based on systematic observation, 1st scientific psych: introspection. Analysis of psych processes in terms of function. Focuses on id. rules or steps by which task is achieved: behaviourism. Subjective experience could not be verified by an objective observer. Two variants: radical behaviourism: internal stress unobservable not scientific. Only study observable behaviour: methodological behaviourism: Acceptable to study internal states but link to observable states: psychoanalysis. Idea that many psych processes proceed w/out full conscious awareness is well est.

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