PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Empiricism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Psychology is the science of behaviour and mental processes. Socrates- known for emphasis on the unexamined life. Plato and aristotle- the relationship between body, mind and soul. Empiricist- (locke and hume), all knowledge linked to experience. Psychology began about a century ago with two schools of though (structuralism, functionalism) Psychologist- trained to assess and diagnose and some therapy. Four recurring themes in psychology: relationship between brain and behaviour, nature and nurture, human diversity, idea generation and application (psychologists and other researchers generate ideas and apply them in many ways) Use of scientific principles, methods, and procedures for: knowledge development, prediction (social psychologists like this in predicting what people will do in certain situations) Psychology is based on 2 premises: empiricism: knowledge through careful observation, not logic", common sense" or intuition", theory development: collection of interrelated ideas and observations that describe, explain and predict behaviour or mental processes.