SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sq3R, Behaviorism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

Important milestones in psych psych"s first laboratory > wilhelm wundt measuring the atoms of the mind structuralism and functionalism as two early schools of thought: structuralism > promoted by wundt and titchener; used self reflective introspection (looking inward) to reveal the structure of the human mind; training people to report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, listened to a metronome, smelled a scent or tasted a substance; proved somewhat unreliable and required smart, verbal people and results varied from each person and experience; end of structuralism, functionalism > promoted by james and influenced by darwin; explored how mental and behavioural processes function how they enable the organism to adapt , survive and flourish ; thinking developed because it was adaptive (contributed to our ancestors" survival); consciousness serves a function it enables us to consider our past , adjust to our present and plan our future;