PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Characterology, Spiritualism, Animal Magnetism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Kathleen Slaney

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Psychology practitioners: phrenologist measured the shape of their clients" skulls, looking for bumps and indentations that signified talents or deficiencies, physiognomists studied the contours and features of their clients" faces, making determinations of personality traits and abilities based on shape of a nose, height of the cheekbones, distance between the eyes, mesmerists used forms of hypnosis to encourage changes in their clients" behaviors, seers and clairvoyants those who could predict the future and thus advise clients about their current and future actions, graphologist made psychological assessments based on the characteristics of their clients" handwriting. Road to mental philosophy: new experimental psychologists resided in the philosophy department, john locke and scottish realists created an empirical science of the mind that sought answers to many of the same questions that would be addressed by the experimentalists, british empiricism: a.