PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Perception, Apophenia, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

Social cultural in uences: presence of others, cultural, societal, and family expectations, peer and other group in uences, compelling models (such as the media, psychological (mental or neurological level) involves thought feelings and emotions. Psychological in uences: learned fears and other learned expectations, emotional responses, cognitive processing and perceptual interpretations, biological (molecular or neurochemical) involves molecules and brain structure. Aim: identifying the most fundamental elements of psychological experience. Insisted on systematic data collection and empiricism: functionalism school of psychology that aimed to understand the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics. William james, heavily in uenced by charles darwin. Aim: understand the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics. Aim: uncovering the general laws of learning by focusing on external observable elements. Helped to understand the learning and the importance of scienti c rigour: cognitive psychology school of psychology that proposes that thinking is central to understanding behaviour. Aim: understand mental processes underlying thinking in a variety of contexts.