PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Abraham Maslow, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psychology = scienti c study of how we think, fell and have. Early school of though promoted by wundt and tichener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. Promoted introspection; training them to report elements of their experiences. Failed for di erent people reported di erent assumptions (i. e. each experience di erent) Early school of though promoted by james and in uenced by darwin; explored how mental and behavioural processes function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and. Thinking developed because it was adaptive, explored why our organs function the way that they do. Sciences stated that what you cannot observe and measure, you cannot scienti cally study. Consequently, psychology became rede ned as the scienti c study of observable behaviour. Studied behaviour without reference to mental processes. Carl rogers and abraham maslow found behaviourist and freudian de nition too limited.