PSY 1101 Chapter Notes -Robert A. Bjork, Natural Selection, Cognitive Neuroscience

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Nigel Desouza

Document Summary

There is only one thing, and only one in the whole universe in which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. c. s. Introspection required smart, verbal people: proved somewhat unreliable, results varied, sometimes we don"t know why we feel what we feel and do what we do, as introspection diminished, so did structuralism. The first lecture on psychology i ever heard was the first i ever gave. James began writing a textbook in 1878 with publisher henry holt called principles of. Psychology: took 12 years, this is still a well known book. Contemporary psychology: today"s psychologists are all over the world, the international union of psychological science has 69 member nations, membership in psychological societies is growing. We are moving rapidly toward a single world of psychological science. robert bjork. Psychology"s biggest question: nature-nurture issue the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours.