PSYC 2000 : Harman Test 1 Notes
Document Summary
Results from psychological research have given us a lot of tools to improve studying and learning: many of these are presented in the first section of the textbook. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes: behavior: any action, mental processes: perceptions, thoughts, feelings, latent constructs. Goals of psychology: describe, explain, predict, control. Pre-psychology: ancient philosophy, aristotle (384-322 bce, plato, tabula rasa (clean slate, modern philosophy, rene descartes, rationalist, cartesian dualism (physical vs. mental, empiricists, you can only know things if you directly observe them, john locke, david hume, bishop berkley. Psychophysics (1840"s-ish: weber, just noticeable difference (jnd, the difference it takes between two stimuli to notice a difference, fechner, stimulus intensity, ebbinghaus. Structuralism (mentalism: elements of consciousness and how they are organized, wilhelm wundt, 1879-ish, father of modern psychology, e. b. Titchner: student of wundt, translated many of wundt"s works into english, gave first phd to woman, william james, functionalism, the principles of psychology, grief, thinking, perception, religious experience.
