Prologue
1. Psychology 's roots
-Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental process
--Psychology is open to any sort of theories, but first has to have data that will backup the predictions
--Behavior: anything an organism does- any action we can observe and record
---Examples of observable behaviors
----yelling
----smiling
----sweating
----talking
----questionnaire making
--Mental processes: the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
---Examples of mental processes
----sensations
----perceptions
----dreams
----thoughts
----beliefs
----feelings
2. Prescientific Psychology
-Even back in the day, people around the world was eager to understand how the mind and body works
--In India: Buddha thought about how sensations and perceptions work …show more content…
-----Locke also beLieves science has the same pattern; make observation first then experimentation
3A. Psychological is Born
-Psychology was first founded on December 1879 at by Wilhelm Wundt with the help of two of his students.
--The laboratory was located in University of Leipzig in Germany
--The experiment was to learn about ""atoms of the mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process"
---Measured how long it takes to recognized the sound when a ball hits the
1. Psychology 's roots
-Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental process
--Psychology is open to any sort of theories, but first has to have data that will backup the predictions
--Behavior: anything an organism does- any action we can observe and record
---Examples of observable behaviors
----yelling
----smiling
----sweating
----talking
----questionnaire making
--Mental processes: the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
---Examples of mental processes
----sensations
----perceptions
----dreams
----thoughts
----beliefs
----feelings
2. Prescientific Psychology
-Even back in the day, people around the world was eager to understand how the mind and body works
--In India: Buddha thought about how sensations and perceptions work …show more content…
-----Locke also beLieves science has the same pattern; make observation first then experimentation
3A. Psychological is Born
-Psychology was first founded on December 1879 at by Wilhelm Wundt with the help of two of his students.
--The laboratory was located in University of Leipzig in Germany
--The experiment was to learn about ""atoms of the mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process"
---Measured how long it takes to recognized the sound when a ball hits the