PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Stuart Mill, Psychological Science, Christian Mortalism
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Psychological science = study of the brain, mind and behaviour; intuitive by nature; involves explaining, predicting, and describing behaviour. Behaviour = a wide variety of actions that occur within organisms. Culture = the beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment and that are transmitted through learning from one generation to the next. Intuition; gut-feeling; common sense: logic, authority, observation; hallmark of the science discipline. In the mid-1800s in europe, psychology arose as a separate field of study using the experimental method. John stuart mill declared that psychology should leave the realm of speculation and philosophy and become a science of observation and of experiment. Since then, early psychologists increasingly studied mental activity through careful scientific observation. Rapid increases in knowledge about basic physiology were central to the development of psychological science. Eventually, schools of thought on psychology were developed.
