PSY-P 101 Midterm: Psychology 101 Exam 1 Notes
16 Sep 2013
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Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Scientific side: answering questions objectively based on observable facts data and established methods. Mental processes: thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, motivations, dreams, subjective experiences. Aristotle: impact of physiology on emergence of psychology, scientific discoveries demonstrated that the scientific method could be applied to behavior and mental processes. Nurture: today focus on interaction of environment and genetics. Rene descartes (1596-1615: doctrine called interactive dualism. Mind and body separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions, and other conscious experiences. Every time you do something new your brain changes (this is still true today) 1874- landmark text he wrote principles of physiological. Edward titchener and structuralism- student of wundt: professor at cornell u, developed approach called structuralism. Involving and studying basic components of conscious experiences: focused on basic sensory and perceptual processes, measured reaction times, criticized for relying on introspection. Definition is in book(not given in class)
