PSY 100 Lecture 1: The Science of Psychology

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

Document Summary

Socrates (469-399 b. c. : mind and the body are 2 separate things dualism. One could die and the other could continue: we have innate knowledge (born with it) Plato (427-347 b. c. : student of socrates same ideas. Aristotle (384-322 b. c. : plato"s stude(cid:374)t but different ideas, cannot separate the mind from the body, mind is a blank slate and can only receive knowledge from experience. Descartes (1595-1650: mind and body dualism. Pineal gland connects the mind and body. Concepts of self and god: rationalism. Knowledge should be sought through the process of logical reasoning. Mind is a blank slate: empiricism. All knowledge is gained through experience and observing the world. Wilhelm wundt (1879), leipzig, germany: first psychology lab by method, tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to figure out the (cid:862)ato(cid:373)s of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) the processes of the mind, ball hitting a platform. Functionalism: edward titchener student of wundt, attempt to discover the basic elements (structures) of the human mind.