PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6,17,18,23,24: Edward B. Titchener, Subjective Constancy, Confounding

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Birth of psychology: december 1879 at university of leipzig the. Behaviorism: the view that psychology should be an objective aimed to study the minds structure or different parts of the mind. He did this by self-reflective introspection (looking inward) science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. John b watson and b. f. skinner redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior . Cognitive: explores how we perceive, process, and remember information (led by carl rogers and abraham maslow) Nature-nurture issue: the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Whether we inherit character and intelligence (aristotle) or we are born with some of it (plato) Level of analysis: refers to the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social cultural for analyzing any given phenomenon. Biopsychosocial approach: formed from integrated different levels of analysis and considers the influences of biological psychological, and social culture factors.