PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Whiton Calkins, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt
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The birth of psychology occurred when two students were helping their middle-aged professor, Wilhelm wundt, with an experiment that tested the reaction times of other students based on sound. He was seeking the atoms of the mind . Two early schools of the study of psychology were structuralism and functionalism: structuralism. Edward bradford titchener engaged people in introspection (looking inward) as they performed certain tasks. However, responses were so varied, it was nearly impossible to come to a coherent result to the introspective experiments: functionalism. William james believes that thinking and smelling are the same in development because they are adaptive. James taught mary whiton calkins; she became a distinguished memory researcher and the. For the pioneers of psychology, it was defined as the science of mental life . John b. watson and b. f. skinner defined psychology as the science of observable behavior . Freudian psychology emphasized how thought patterns and emotional responses affected our behavior: humanistic psychology.
