PSY 102 Final: Psychology Final Exam Review.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Brad Meisner

Document Summary

It"s a board field; the term is over generalized: simply put, it is critically examining the mind, brain and behavior and how they interact and connect with one another, spans many level of explanations, communalism: willingness to share findings with others, objectivity: attempts to explain or reduce bias when designing research and evaluating evidence. > merely thinking about the mind, brain and behavior; difficult to distinguish from philosophy: wilhelm wundt (1832 1920) developed first full fledged psychological laboratory in germany, launched experimental science, focused on basic questions concerning mental experiences, believed we could understand concepts through experimentation, used something called introspection, which required trained observers to carefully reflect and report on their mental experiences, marked the beginning of psychology as a science, william james, mental events could be quantified through introspection, believed things were measurable, for every response we have in our mind and behavior there is brain influence.