PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism, Jane Goodall
5 Feb 2019
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De nition: psychology: the science the science of behavior and mental processes, psychiatry: the study of the the study of the medical treatment of psychological disorders. Philosophers: before psychology became a science, it was a branch of philosophy. Both plato (424 bc 347 bc) and aristotle (384bc 322bc) speculated on psychological questions without testing their explanations. Rene descartes (1596-1650) thought the soul was separate from the body, and was not subject to physical laws. Structuralism: an approach to studying psychology in which introspection is used to determine the basic elements of human thought: wilhelm wundt (1832-1920) was the rst scienti c psychologist. He opened the rst psychology laboratory in germany in 1879. Edward titchner (1867 1927) was the founder of structuralism who opened the rst psychology lab in america at cornell university. Structuralism attempted to specify how psychological processes occurred using only introspection. Introspection turned out to be a bad method for studying mental events because: a.
