PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Empiricism, Behaviorism

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Eric Lundquist

Document Summary

1879: wundt founded the first lab dedicated to psychology. 1913: watson declares that to be a science, psych must only study the observable and be a science of behavior rather than mind. 1967: neisser publishes cognitive psychology outlining ideas of study that led to investigation and a consensual view of the new field. Kulpe and his collaborators discovered you can have some thoughts occupy your mind without corresponding images. When you discover something about behavior, it explains about behavior which validates science. You can divide psychology into 3 era"s: science of the mind (1879)/structuralist era, behaviorist era (1913), cognitive psychology (1967). Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. No inborn innate knowledge, all knowledge must come from what you learn. (empiricism) Nativism is when you"re born with innate knowledge. Empiricism says that you are born knowing nothing, and experience will teach you (senses). Psychology as the science of knowing and experiencing .