PSYC 2000 Chapter : What Is Psychology? Chap 1
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What is psychology: psychology- scientific study of behavior and mental processes, behavior- any action, mental processes- perceptions, thoughts, feelings, latent constructs, scientific- way of thinking using the scientific method. Founded the 1st experimental psychology laboratory: work involved objective introspection, edward titchener, student of wundt, translated many of wundt"s works into english, structuralism. Where unwanted urges and desires are pushed towards: psychoanalysis: therapy based on freud"s ideas. Dream interpretation: pavlov, interested in reflexes, discovered that reflexes could be conditioned (learned) After pairing buzzer-food, get buzzer-saliva: john watson, behaviorism- study of observable behavior, little albert study, challenged freud"s phobias are the result of unconscious conflicts. Tried to create a phobia using the conditioning technique discovered by pavlov: classical conditioning. Scientific method: confirmation bias- tendency to notice, seek out, and interpret information in a way consistent with your own prior beliefs. Correlations and causation: correlations does not prove causation!
