PSY 1101 Midterm: Revision 1 (prologue) (All you need to know for midterms)

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

Document Summary

Deiniion of psychology the study of mental events and behavior. Major division of psychology: schools of psychology: experimental psychology. Structuralism wilhelm wundt & edward titchener (wundt is both a philosopher and physiologist) Introspecion: method of looking inward and relecing on one"s own conscious experience. (e. g. asking paricipants to verbally state what they are experiencing when they smelled a lower) Very subjecive & unreliable: individual experience diferently on. Pragmaism: e. g. focused on the funcions of our body ears for hearing // brain is for thinking why do they do these things: clinical psychology (counselling; psychotherapy) Study of higher mental funcions : memory, atenion, decision-making, language. Focus on how we encode, process, store, retrieve informaion. Word vs picture cogniive, where people recognized only 30% of words and 80% of pictures while focusing only on pictures). Cannot directly observe the mental processes, and the cogniive funcions that are of interest -> use of cog.