PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Mckeen Cattell, Margaret Floy Washburn, American Psychological Association
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This was when psyche was used to refer to the mind, spirit or soul as distinguished from the body: in the early 18th century, the term psychology gained more than just rare usage among scholars. By this time, psychology had acquired the literal meaning, the study of the mind . People have always wondered about the mysteries of the mind therefore psychology is as old as the human race: it was only a little over 100 years ago that psychology emerged as a scientific discipline. Psychology"s intellectual parents were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology: by the 1870s, a small number of scholars in both fields were exploring questions about the mind in their respective fields. Many of the labs were started by wundt"s students or by his student"s students. G. stanley hall: studied briefly with wundt, toward the end of the 19th century, hall had many firsts for american psychology. Established america"s first research laboratory in psychology at john.
