PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Experimental Psychology, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Russell

Document Summary

Psychology was referred to as the study of the mind, soul or spirits as distinguished from the body. 18th century psychology became more popular with scholars. Little over a century it emerged as a discipline. Philosophy and physiology influenced the study of psychology. Early scholars (aristotle, socrates and plato) debated issues of relevance to psychology. Whether knowledge is inborn or gained from experience: many of their theories are still with us today. Descartes: argued for dualism of the mind and the body, said that mind and body were different. Mind (soul) being immaterial: believed processes and functions like dreaming, memory, perception and emotions (cid:449)ere (cid:862)properties(cid:863) of the (cid:271)od(cid:455) This is seen by many as most important legacies to psychology. Ideas in philosophy concerning the mind and body continued to develop, other disciplines such as the study of experimental psychology and medicine, left own marks on later development of psychology. Blood circulation was a function of the operation of the heart.