PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych Ch 1
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1/20/2016 8:28:00 pm: what is psychology, definition of psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, 1. You couldn"t erase, the stuff written on it would fade overtime: used wax tablet as a metaphor to blank slate of the mind. Plato (aristotle"s student: disagreed with his teacher aristotle. Only trust logic and mathematics: cartesian dualism (physical vs. mental) the mind is fundamentally different than the body. (the mind is separate from the body) We are all made out of thought: psychophysics (barely pre-psychology) (1840"s ish, weber, just noticeable difference (jnd, interested in how we perceive intensity, our perceptions are not absolute, fechner, stimulus intensity, (ebbinghaus is a part of this group) The first book in psychology: some areas include: perception, thinking, grief, religious experiences, famous picture about perception, chronoscope- elaborate and precise time machine. Introspection- self recording what your mind is doing.
