PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gustav Fechner, Jean Piaget, Edward B. Titchener

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Psychology module 1. 1, 1. 2 the science of psychology. Someone coming close to you may be thought of as flirting but it could just be that you"re talking too quietly) Cyber emotional intelligence studies the emotional assumptions we make based on online personalities. Ancient egyptians suffered head injuries and patterns emerged in impairment at different parts of the brain. Empiricism- knowledge comes from experience (ex. observations) Determinism-all events are controlled by lawful cause & effect relationships (are our actions determined or freewill or both?) Materialist someone who believes that everything that exists including humans are composed exclusively of physical matter. Hippocrates & galen-developed a personality/temperament scheme based on fluids, most people are a combination of these. Developed psychophysics which is the relationship between the physical world and the mental representation of the world. Darwin-natural selection of behaviours allowed some people to survive. Freud developed psychoanalysis which explains how behaviour and personality are influenced by unconscious processes.