PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Case Method, Central Tendency, External Validity
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1. 1 psychology"s roots: structuralists: who tried to analyze the mind by breaking it down to its basic components, functionalists: who focused on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. 1. 4 structuralism: applying methods from physiology: physiology: study of biological processes, especially in the human body, william james was drawn to hermann von helmholtz and. Example: describing how you felt when you smelled that rainbow cake covered in belgium chocolate mmm . 1. 8 the development of clinical psychology: clinics were beginning to study patients with psychological disorders. 1. 12 the search for objective measurement: behaviourism takes center stage: behaviourism: the scientiic study of objectively observable behavior. 1. 16 return of the mind: psychology expands: behaviourism ignored the mental processes and evolutionary history of the organisms it studied. 1. 18 technology and the development of cognitive psychology: donald broadbent studied what happens when people try to pay attention to several things at once, invention of computers, writing computer programs.
