PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Cognitive Revolution, Behaviorism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

The scienti c method is the best way of learning about the mind and behaviour. Behaviour is in uenced by a complex network of interacting factors. Numerous barriers to the recognition of psychology as a scienti c discipline. Zeitgeist of the 1600s (dualism-body and mind are apart/ people like machines) Although the seeds of psychology were planted long before he came along, wilhelm. Wundt is the founding father of experimental psychology. Thought meter(people can only focus on auditory or visual side of something once at a time) Structuralism( edward titchener- break people down into speci c elements) Opposite to structuralism, we have to view things has a whole. We need only focus on observable behaviours and mind is only a black box. The cognitive revolution(1950s to 60s) and the decade of the brain(90s) Biopsychology through fri, understand the brain itself better.