PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, American Psychological Association

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

The term psychology is derived from two greek words, psyche meaning the soul, and logos, referring to the study of a subject. Psychology is defined as the study of the mind . Psychologist"s intellectual parents were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology. A new science is born: the contributions of wundt and hall. Psychology"s founder. o: a german professor who was responsible for recognizing psychology as its own discipline. Declared psychology a science whose primary focus was the scientific study of conscious experience, kept psychology focused on the study of the mind and mental processes. G. stanley hall (1846 1924: responsible for setting up the first research lab in 1879 in germany, launched america"s first psychology journal in 1887, and helped establish the american. The battle of the schools begins: structuralism vs. functionalism. Functionalism had a more lasting impact on psychology, as it fostered the emergence of behaviourism and. John b. watson (1878 1958: f. skinner (1904 1990)