PSYC 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wilhelm Wundt, Sensory Threshold, Biogenic Substance
24 Jan 2017
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Integrating framework for emerging types of psychological enquiry. Darwin proposed the doctrine of natural selection to explain organic evolution. Humans had evolved from previous life forms through aeons of time by a mechanism that appears in itself quite blind. This theory was attacked as insufficient with its victory only emerging in the. Herbert spencer: synthetic philosophy - grandiose vision of evolution as an inexorable history of 19th century evolution thought. This became known as biogenic law: degeneration: if natural selection is suspended , unfit organisms survive and reproduce, evolution was seen as an essential progressive. These studies came to be known as aspects of a single project: exploring the implications of evolutionary perspective for human nature. Functionalist approach: psychological phenomenon that can be explained by identifying its survival value for the organism. This furthered the studies in terms of cultural aspects and what is known as.
