PSYC 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cranial Nerves, Temporal Lobe, Color Vision

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

You can only observe physical events, you can"t observe feelings. The problem with this is that people can fake their emotions. Structuralism - plato and socrates thought they could turn it into a science. Behavior is objective and can be validated. Social psychology - interested in how people act in groups. Developmental psychology - psychology of the lifespan. Industrial psychology - people in the workplace (unions) Behavioral neuroscience - how the brain generates behavior. Clinical psychology - interested in helping you with your problems. Each of these fields has both a purely scientific and a practical side. Science is a process aimed at gaining a type of empirical knowledge. Empirical knowledge - gained and validated via the senses (observations, sensory experience). Science is a type of empirical data ex) it is raining today. You know because it came through your senses.