Liberal Arts PSY100 Lecture 2: Intro to Psych – Week 2 Chapter #1 Laura Cavanaugh
21 Sep 2017
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Trephining: chipping a hole in a patient"s skull. Wilhelm wundt: father of psychology * first to try to study anything psychological* Established the first experimental laboratory devoted to psychology. Focused on the basic building blocks of perception, consciousness, thinking, and emotion. Introspection: first scientific method devised for psychology. Edward titchener wanted to create a periodic table of conscious experience he was trying to simplify it into a way that is not accurate and meaningless. Moved from structure to the role behavior plays in allowing people to adapt to their environments, environmental pressures shape the organism. People adapt to their environment psychologically/ behaviorally (james called it functionalism) William james hugely impacted by charles darwin"s work (evolutionary biology) Views behavior from the perspective of the brain, the nervous system, and other biological functions. We have an unconscious part of our mind that influences our behavior. Psychological diagnoses can be treated through psychological intervention. Psychology should only be the study of observable.
