PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Karl Lashley, Mary Whiton Calkins, Kurt Lewin
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Chapter 1: psychology: evolution of a science. Psychology: the scientific study of mind and behavior. Mind: the private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings, an ever-flowing stream of consciousness. Behavior: observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals; the things that 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 behavior that have puzzled people for millennia: 1. All of our subjective experiences arise from the electrical and chemical activities of our brains. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) allows scientists to scan a brain to determine which parts are active when a person reads a word, sees a face, learns a new skill, or remembers a personal experience: 2. The mind helps us to survive and reproduce. The mind"s mistakes tell us about how the mind operates. Section 1 psychology"s roots: the path to a science of mind.
