PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Psychological Association, Social Ecology, Wilhelm Wundt
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What is psychology: psychology is study of human mind, study of subject. Esear(cid:272)hers (cid:858)pepler and craig" did a study on bullying using naturalistic method. Social ecology i. e location of the episode: esult: (cid:271)ull(cid:455)i(cid:374)g does(cid:374)(cid:859)t take pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) isolated pla(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) ti(cid:373)es peers are involved. Psychology has emerged from philosophy and physiology. Professor wundt focus (cid:449)as (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess i. e a(cid:449)are(cid:374)ess of o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s surrou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g. G. stanley hall established apa -american psychological association. The study of psychology started with two major thoughts- structuralism and functionalism. Structuralism - it was based on the idea that purpose of psychology was analysing conscious thoughts into basic elements and finding out how these elements related with one another: eg. sensation and perception. Natural selection -also known as theory of evolution given by charles darwin, is a theory that tells about the characteristics which are inherited and adapted for survival and reproduction.
