Psychology 101

Rational and empirical routes to knowledge. Methods included a direct examination of nature

Father of scientific Psychology. "Thought Meter" - thinking takes time. 

Separate discipline from philosophy. all behavior is a result of previous learning. there is no need to explore thoughts and feelings. 

Focuses on the way information is perceived/processed-retrieved. Human mind is like a computer (mind processes information) Our minds interpret, store and retrieve the input to shape our behavior. Study object perception and recognition, decision-making and judgment also short term and long term memory. 

Actions are determined by the interaction of our thoughts feelings and wishes. Freud's practice emerged from the medical tradition. 

Plato (born with certain knowledge or thought)Aristotle (heart is where thought comes from)John Locke (mind is blank state at birth)Charles Darwin (evolotuion theory)Ivan Pavlov (classical Conditioning)

Schools of thought. 

Theoretical assertions that provide a model or abstract picture of the object of study. includes a set of shared metaphors that compare the object under investigation to somethign else that is readily comprehended, "the mind is like a computer"

Tentative belief or educated guess that predicts the relationship between two or more variables

Variable an experimenter manipulates or whose affects the experimenter assesses.

Participants' responses in a study

Generalizationsurveynaturalistic observationcase studyexperimental research studymeasures of central tendenciesstandard deviationtheoryhypothesisreplication

An in-depth observation of a phenomenon in its natural setting.

A research design in which investigatiors manipulate some aspect of a situation and examine the impact of this manipulation on the way particpipants respond. 

Motor neurons, sensory neurons, efferent neurons afferent neurons