PSYC 100 Chapter 1: PSYCH 100 week 1 online lesson

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Katherine Fretz

Document Summary

Psychology: the science of behaviour and mental processes. Behaviour: any action that can be observed, recorded, and measured. Many psychologists are clinical psychologists and their job includes diagnosing and treating people with mental disorders. All careers have the fact that they have to understand behaviour in common. Topic 2: philosophical roots of psychology: outline the philosophical roots of psychology. Roots in western philosophy, which originated with the ancient greeks. Socrates, plato, and aristotle, dealt with issues that are still relevant to present- Monday, september 26, 2016 day psychologists: do people have free will? , are people inherently good or evil? . Founding fathers of psych: wilhelm wundt & william james: wundt - focus on smaller elements that make up human experience, james - focus on advantages resulting from different human attributes, de ne empiricism and rationalism. Rationalism: pursuit of truth through reason and logic, through logical argument, socrates concluded that our perceptions are not always the same as reality.