PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Gestalt Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Lecture 01 introduction, history and research methods. Five core courses: behavioural neuroscience, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and social psychology. Not merely common sense (things we thought we knew all along, thought we knew the opposite as well) Psychology is hard to define, because people are hard to define. Psychology is about people and what makes them up. In the study of intelligence testing: developed in england, sir francis galton (first cousin of charles darwin, heavy biological influence on testing tradition, represented particularly in the evolutionary side of psychology, narrowest tradition (out of 3) Academic approach (laboratory psychology: wilhelm wundt. Thoughts could be divided into mental atoms (base psychology on chemistry: three reactions to wundt laboratory psychology. Made lots of progress and a very important contribution. Wundt: important for others to come up with ideas (his contribution is not as much) Freud: what influenced much of adult development.