Psychology

This document is a summary of the first chapter of Psychology: an exploration by Ciccarelli and White.

chapter 8 of the Psychology: Themes and Variations questions on cognition, language and thought processes.

When psychology first emerged as an independent science, the focus was on the mind, but introspective methods yielded unreliable results. The behaviorist focus on overt responses was empirically more sound, yet theorists argued that it provided an incomplete picture of human functioning. Renegade theorists continued to study cognition, the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge

Foundations of Psychology Lecture and Study Notes for first year students mostly.