PSYC 1001 Lecture 1:
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Development: trying to understand the progression of the childhood development. Cognitive: way of learning and understanding the world. Social: the scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another. Research and major applying what they learn in the real. Ancient greece (470 bce) purely philosophy (socrates, aristotle, plato, The soul and mind are separate entities (dualism) Confucius - personality, social, psychology, progressing from one. First multiple test (organization psychology) because of one"s dispositions. What to do with one who has low energy. No cause and effect but rather the effects from doctrines of the church. Illusions in the past they would believe that you were demonized. In reality people could not understand or explain this phenomenon. Everyone went back to the philosophers of the past and started posing similar questions. They started to shift away from the doctrines of the church. Philosophy is seperate from psychology according to wilhelm wundt.