Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Karl Lashley, Tabula Rasa, Center For American Progress

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

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Psychology 1000 exam #1 study notes -emily gillissie. What is psychology- scientific study of behaviour and the mind through: actions, thoughts, feelings and reactions. Behaviour- actions and responses we can directly see. Ivan sechenov- physiologist, believed complex behaviour can be explained by reflexes. History of studying behaviour: birth of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology- study of mental processes especially from a model that views the mind as an information processor. Wilhem wundt- 1st psychology lab (1879) in leipzig germany founder of structuralism (studied structure and components of consciousness and the mind in terms of its most basic elements) Introspection (very subjective, hard to generalize and isolate variable, hard to test accuracy of data: studied the same phenomena cognitive psychologists" study today. Hermann von ebbinghaus- first rigorous empirical study of cognitive phenomena- studied memory and forgetting. William james- functionalism- studied function or purposes of consciousness and mental process in adapting to the environment, rather than structure.