PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clinical Psychology, Doctor Of Education, Positive Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

The term psychology comes from two greek words, psyche, meaning the soul, and logos, referring to the study of a subject. These two greek root words were first put together to define a topic of study in the 16th century, when psyche was used to refer to the soul, spirit, or mind, as distinguished from the body. By that time it had acquired its literal meaning, the study of the mind. : ancient greek philosophers such as socrates (469 399 b. c. e. Aristotle (385 322 b. c. e. ) considered and debated issues of relevance to psychology, including such subjects as the separation of mind and body and whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism). The impact of philosophy on the development of ideas about mind, behaviour, and human nature continued as classic philosophy itself developed through the periods of renaissance.