PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Mckeen Cattell, Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Howell

Document Summary

Over 500,000 psychologists, worldwide: the american psychological association, the association for psychological science. First laboratory: fourth century bce aristotle used observation and questioning to understand psych relationship, answers through observation. Psychophysics- understanding vision and other senses: empirical methods (controlled lab environments, research on perception. 2 key elements: carefully measured observations, experiments. Psychoanalysis- sigmund freud: explain personality and behavior through psychological processes, emphasize importance of childhood in development of personality, case study, psychotherapy- modern day therapy based on freud. Functionalism- william james, g. stanley hall, james. Mckeen cattell: study how mind allows organisms to adapt to the environment, emphasized function of thought, naturalistic observation, educational, evolutionary, child, and industrial psych- was influenced, study of individual differences. Wolfgang kohler: describe the organization of consciousness. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: observation of sensory/perceptual phenomena, understanding learning and cognition, visual illusions.