PSYC 104_1 & 104_2 – Spring 2014 – Activity (Chapter 1-10)
Name:_________________Lorena Gonzalez_____________________________LSU number:_________946243_________________
Put your name, LSU ID number. Write your responses on the sheet and make it as personal and original as possible. This activity is designed to push you to go back to all the chapters we work on together and to prepare you for the midterm and final exam to come. All of these questions could potentially used in the final exam, so prepare them as carefully as possible. When you are done, just copy/paste the text you wrote on turnitin.com and submit your activity. The deadline is on Saturday 05/17/2014. Good luck.
1. What event(s) defined the founding of scientific psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt’s studied the “atoms of the mind” and conducting experiments in Leipzig, Germany. He introduced structuralism and revealed the human mind structure. His work was considered the birth of psychology.
William James also contributed to the founding of scientific psychology by exploring how mental and behavioral processes work.
2. What are psychology’s major levels of analysis?
Psychology’s major levels of analysis are biological influences, psychological influences, and social-cultural influences.
3. What is the scientific attitude, and why is it important for critical thinking?
The scientific attitude is an attitude that is made up of curiosity, skepticism, and humility. This scientific attitude is an attitude that explores, doubts, questions, and when wrong accepts responsibility. This attitude is important for critical thinking because it has all the qualities needed in order to make a good idea because it is curious, doubts and questions things and when wrong accepts t...
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...rmany, contacted a relief agency, traveled to the United States, and began a new life. According to the definition of intelligence we saw in class, is Joseph the only smart person in this story? Why or why not (Justify your answer)?
No, because even though Joseph is straight-A student it does not make him smarter than Judith because Judith was smart enough to keep her life intact after going through the hard experience of being imprisoned and was smart in going on from her life after the imprisonment. They both have different life situation that requires intelligence but different types of intelligence because Judith used the intelligence on bettering her life and leaving the struggles while Joseph used his intelligence to achieve his career. They both are equally intelligent because they learned things with experience and are moving towards the right directions.
I think people who didn’t get much schooling didn’t mean they are not intelligence. Intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. In the old generation, parents don’t have much money to support all their child’s go to college because of the tuition fee and they had a lot things need to support. For example, my parents didn’t go to school, doesn’t mean they are not intelligence or not smart, their family can’t give them that much tuition fee and not much money to let them go to college, however now they still have a job to work on and keeping it. However people don’t go to college doesn’t mean they can’t get a job or can’t survive. So I agree with the author, intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. Also I believe that can’t go to college doesn’t mean you can’t get success in other way. The god is fair for you close a door at the same time will open another door for you but you need to be confident.
This essay examines the advantages and disadvantages of using a method primarily for gathering research on human subjects that can be examined for later use. It will give a basic outline of the methods of investigation, their uses and their suitability. I will also look at the scientific method as a whole and examine the criticisms of this method using the writings of Hume and Popper.
the intelligent women). He claims that those intelligent women are not a good representative of the general intelligence of women because the women who can be accepted by the university which indicates that they have been filtered in terms on their intelligence (94). The university would only accept the women who have high intelligence, and screen out those women who do not meet their requirement of the intelligence. The women who Solomon has met must be intelligent, since they have already been selected. Therefore, the women in the college is not a good random sample to represent the general intelligence of the women (93).
In conclusion, there are many connections to be made between the life of Joseph and Jesus. They both encountered much adversity which then in turn resulted in the redemption of many. The difference is Joseph was able to help some and Jesus was salvation for
Rieber, R. W. (2001). Wilhelm Wundt in history: the making of a scientific psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
The development of psychology like all other sciences started with great minds debating unknown topics and searching for unknown answers. Early philosophers and psychologists such as Sir Francis Bacon and Charles Darwin took a scientific approach to psychology by introducing the ideas of measurement and biology into the way an indi...
Intelligence by definition is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” (Oxford Dictionary, 2014). However, many psychologists argue that there is no standard definition of ‘intelligence’, and there have been many different theories over time as psychologists try to find better ways to define this concept (Boundless 2013). While some believe in a single, general intelligence, others believe that intelligence involves multiple abilities and skills. Another largely debated concept is whether intelligence is genetically determined and fixed, or whether is it open to change, through learning and environmental influence. This is commonly known as the nature vs. nurture debate.
The British Psychological Society states that ‘Psychology is the scientific study of people, the mind and behaviour’ (BPS). In this essay I will be discussing what is actually meant by this and whether psychology fits into both the traditional views of a science, as well as more contemporary perspectives. It is widely suggested that Psychology is a “coalition of specialities” meaning it is multi-disciplinary (Hewstone, Fincham and Foster 2005, page 4). I will therefore examine whether it could be considered wrong to think that all parts of the discipline should neatly fit into one view of a scientific approach.
1913 - J.D. Watson proposed the only proper object of study in psychology is behavior.
In 1875 one of Wundt's former students Williams James (1842-1910) form a psychology laboratory in United States of America, at Harvard University. It is alleged that James didn't get the recognition he deserved because his laboratory was strictly for the teaching, rather than experiments and research like his former teacher and colleague- Wundt and G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924).
Psychology has been around for quite awhile which isn’t surprising at all considering the fact that tons of people everyday wonder why and how are brains work the way they do. Psychology dates back to the ancient Greeks. There is also evidence of psychological thought in ancient Egypt. Psychology was a branch of philosophy until the 1870s, when it was developed as an independent scientific. In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt started the first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Later in 1883, G. Stanley Hall, student of Wilhelm Wundt, established the first U.S. experimental psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Throughout the later years many discoveries and theories arose such as, IQ test, How dreams work, and the behavior of children.
Science can be defined as a concept of observations and inquiries that the whole world applies depending on certain natural laws which are discovered and tested. Some academics come across ideas which have existed, they explore and test these ideas using scientific methods. These methods are based on observations or experience which compel academics into hypothesis testing (Comer, Gould, & Furnham, 2013). It is suggested that science has key
Hergenhahn, B. R., & Henley, T. B. (2014). An introduction to the history of psychology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
The profession of psychology has been around since the time of the Greeks, but did not develop into its own discipline until around the late 1800s. A German physiologist named Wilhelm Wundt began using scientific research methods in order to investigate reaction times. He also was the first person to make the association between physiology and human thought and behavior. In 1879, he opened the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig. This event has been said to be the official beginning of psychology as a separate scientific discipline (Landrum). Over the years, many influential people have helped the profession of psychology experience a dynamic evolution into various subfields
Several persons contributed to the development of physiological psychology; such as Charles Darwin who were a biologist and whose theory of evolution revolutionized biology and strongly influenced early psychologists, René Descartes a philosopher and mathematician, Hermann von Helmholtz and Johannes Muller etc.Amongst them one of