PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch 1 and Appendix A: Personal Development, Operational Definition, Natural Experiment
7 Oct 2018
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Every job is nonfunctional if proper psych is not in place. Your state of mind matters for everything you do. Explains mental activity and behavior (brain v mind) Helps us to succeed in school and work (better understanding of humans) 1. 1 psychology: the scientific and systematic empirical study of mental process behavior. Defined as the specific study of behavior and mental process. The mind has a tendency to see things as a whole (big picture), not the individual pieces. Aristotle: philosophical empiricism - knowledge is acquired through experience, scientific method could be applied to behavior and mental process. Descartes: interactive dualism - mind and body are separate entities that work together. Wilhelm wundt (founder of psych): 1879 - first psych lab at leipzig uni. Based on introspection: to think about what you"re thinking about. Thoughts and feelings during an experience, identify conscious pieces of experience.
