Rene Descartes
mind body seperation
animal spirits
Spirit Animals
animal spirits communciated between mind and body
John Locke
tabula rasa
Tabula Rasa
the blank slate
babies are blank slates
john locke
Wilhelm Wundt & Labatory
father of modern psychology
created the first modern psychology lab
Imediate Experiences
directly perceived elements of an event of stimulus
Psychology is interested in immediate experiences
Mediate Experiences
stimuli that provide information about something other than the experiential element
Introspection
Wundt used to capture immediate experiences
experimental self-observation
William James
Father of American Psychology
explorator of a new field called functionalism
Functionalisim
How do our experiences influence us
Correlation vs Causation
Correlation does not mean causation
There is no causation without correlation
IV
the thing that is causing something
what is manipulated
DV
the reaction
What happened because of the IV
Operationalization
how we are going to measue something
student behavior -> teacher reported questionare
random assignmnet
each participant has an equal chance of being in any of the possible groups
experimental and control groups
confounds
variables that covary with the IV and DV but lead to the wrong inference
The third thing that could explain your results
