PSYC 1010 Chapter 1: Module 1

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

300 bc: greek naturalists and philosopher aristotle theorized about learning, memory, motivation and emotion, perception, and personality. Rst psychological lab staffed by wundt and by psychology"s rst graduate students. Then psychology organized into two branches, or schools of thought: structuralism and functionalism. Edward bradford tichener aimed to discover the mind"s structure. He engaged people in introspection (looking inward) by asking people what they experienced or thought by looking at a rose or listened to metronome. Saturday, october 8, 2016: this required very intelligent people, results varied a lot (from person to person and situation to situation, thus this branch was not very reliable and eventually waned along with structuralism. Tried to understand mind from simple elements. Conscious serves as a function; enables one to consider the past, adjust present and plan future. Philosopher- psychologist jame william encouraged the exploration of functions of emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment to moment streams of consciousness.