PSYA01H3 Chapter 1: PSYA01 CHAPTER 1
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Chapter 1 psychology: the evolution of a science. William james travelled around europe to find himself, but found psychology instead, which he found interest in: the principles of psychology, wondered how people acquired complex skills (musicians) Psychology was taking a modern, scientific approach to age-old question about the human nature: questions previously answered by poets and philosophers. Psychologists today are exploring perception, memory, creativity, consciousness, love, anxiety, addictions and more. Psychology: the scientific study of mind and behavior. Mind: private inner experience, the ever-flowing stream of consciousness that is made up of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings. Behaviour: observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals, the things we do in the world, by ourselves or with others. Psychology is an attempt to use scientific methods to address fundamental questions about mind and behaviour. Trying to understand how the objective (physical world of the body) was related to the subjective (psychological world of the mind).
