PSY 1101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Visual Cortex, Thalamus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes . Talking, sleeping, running, eating, reading, reproductive behaviour. First psychology laboratory by wundt and by psychology"s first graduate students. How different do two lights have to be before one can tell which is brighter? . Speed of the simplest mental processes, e. g. , recognition. Focused on the basic structural elements of conscious, mental experiences, of the human mind. Observation and reporting of one"s mental experiences: e. g. , apple, rose, pencil, bell, report sensations, thoughts, feelings, looking, listening, smelling, tasting. Focused on the functions of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. James was influenced by charles darwin"s theory of natural selection. E. g. , conscious thinking: allows one to consider the present in the context of the past and the future. Authored the first psychology textbook (principles of psychology - 1890; 12 years to write) William james, admitted mary whiton calkins into his graduate seminar and mentored her.