PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism, Psychometrics

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Psychology means the study of the soul study of the mind. Pyschology studies behaviou and the physiological and conscious process that underlie it. Founder wilhelm wundt (set up first research lab in germany) Said that psychology should be the scientific study of consciousness - awareness of the immediate experience. Wundt along with g. stanley hall launched americas first psychology journal. Structuralism: was based on the notation that the task of psychology is no analyze consciousness into it"s basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. To examine concepts of consciousness structuralists depended on introspection the careful, systematic self-observation of ones own conscious experience. Fundamental conscious components of conscious experience like sensations, feelings. Functionalism: based in the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. More interested in how people adapt their behaviour to the demands of the real world around them.