FILM 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wilhelm Wundt, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Margaret Floy Washburn
3 Mar 2019
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Psychology: the science that studies behaviour & the physiological & cognitive processes that underlie behaviour; the profession that applies this science to practical problems. 140 years ago psychology emerged as a scientific subject. Hermann von helmholtz: student that began one of the first psychological experiments on. Beyond freedom and dignity: by b. f. skinner (1971) Wilhelm wundt: 1832 - 1920 human reaction time. Physiologists and physicians would study psychology within their field, wundt changed this view physiology) Made psychology an independent discipline (not a stepchild of philosophy or. 1879 - established the 1st formal laboratory for research in psychology at. Historians named 1879 as psychology"s date of birth . Said the new psychology should be a science based off chemistry and physics. Subject matter of this new science: consciousness. Thus, psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience. First 2 major schools of thought: structuralism and functionalism. Kept psychology focused on the mind: structuralism: - emerged through edward titchener teachings (1892)
