PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Psychophysics, Scientific Method, Empiricism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Many psychologists have little or no connection to clinical treatment. Many work as researchers and teachers or in various industries such as advertising, comm. Has roots in western philosophy which originated with ancient greeks. Many of the writings of these philosophers are still relevant to present-day psychologists. Rationalism: the pursuit of truth through reason and logic. Through logical argument, socrates concluded that our perceptions are. While you can and should answer questions using logic, psychologists usually apply logic, this approach is known as empiricism. Empiricism: revolves around what we can observe and measure. The belief that people can describe the world through rules generated by observation, qu accounts for all available evidence) This approach was applied to questions about perception, thinking and behaviour. Psychophysicists measured the relationship between changes in the magnitude of the ph magnitude (ie. how we perceive it"s brightness); discovered that physical and sensory ma.