[PSYC 1020H] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (52 pages long)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Parker James

Document Summary

Seminars are fortnightly so every other week. In this course we look at notions of the brain, the mind and the behavior. Donald hebb: neurons that fire together wire together. Psychology is based on the empirical methods (observation, explanation, prediction and testing). Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense huxley. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense - (false) Science is uncommon sense : requires us to override automatic, effortless and intuitive modes of thinking with the controlled, effortless and reflective modes of thinking. Purpose of empirical and experimental research: providing a description of what the dependent and independent measures that are being tested are (methodology, providing a mathematical description of the strength of this relationship (measurement) Basic unit that define each level of scientific discourse: chemistry atom, biology cell, physics quantum, economics transaction, sociology group, geology mineral, psychology response. Essential unit of psychology: response: is any movement or change in the organism that can be.