PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Clinical Psychology, Brain Injury

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

Document Summary

Identify several fields in which psychologists may work: outline some of the questions psychologists ask, describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Where do psychologists work: some psychologists work primarily as researchers and faculty at universities and at governmental organizations, others work in hospitals, schools, clinics, correctional facilities, many are active in both research and practice. Objectives: outline the philosophical roots of psychology, define empiricism and rationalism, explain structuralism and functionalism in relation to empiricism. Socrates concluded that our perceptions are not always the same as reality: the belief that questions can be answered through logic and reason. Determinism: the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause and effect relationships. Enter psychology: the founding fathers of psychology are wilhelm wundt and william james, wundt and his followers focused on the smaller elements that make up human experience.