PSYC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Stage Fright, Facilitated Communication, Syphilis
7 Dec 2015
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Behavior: can be observed by others: many levels to study and understand behavior. Mind: can"t be directly seen (ex: how do we study/de ne depression if we don"t. Focuses on studying cognitions, thoughts, and mental processes (how these. Aspects of sport performance, motivation, performance anxiety, effects of sport. Explores how our biology in uences our behavior. Predict the outcome of a behavior in a particular situation based on things affect behavior: sport and exercise on mental/emotional wellbeing, bio and evolutionary evolutionary theory, sensation and perception. Structuralism: wundt (known as the founder of psychology) We attibute the idea of psychology being scienti c to him. He askes . how do we identify the most basic elements of psychological experience. Like chemistry, how do we break down the mind, memory, thinking, reasoning, into elements. 1879- the date we attribute to the foundation of psychology (wundt founded his rst lab at a university in germany)
