PSYC 3310 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sigmund Freud, List Of Assassin'S Creed Characters, Cognitive Psychology
25 Apr 2015
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German professor - made psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. 1879 he established the first formal laboratory for research in psychology at the. University of leipzig: historians have christened 1879 as psychology"s date of birth he is widely characterized as the founder of psychology. Structuralism introspection the careful, systematic self observation of one"s own conscious experience structuralists believed that psychology should use introspection to analyze consciousness into its basic elements. Most of their work concerned sensation, perception in vision, hearing, and touch. B. f. skinner developed a system based on his own philosophy of radical behaviourism. Carl rogers human behaviour is governed primarily by each individual"s sense of self. 1990s = emergence of a new theoretical perspective called evolutionary psychology. Psychology is the science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and its it the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems.
