PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Experimental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, Empiricism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

Document Summary

Psyche soul and logos study of a subject. Many people point to developments in philosophy and physiology as influencing the course of early psychology. Aristotle (385-322), plato (427-347) and socrates (469-399) debated issues of relevance to psychology separation of the mind and body whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism) Aristotle stated that memories are the result of three principles of association. Development of ideas about the mind, behavior and human nature continued through periods of the renaissance (ren descartes) and post renaissance (thomas hobbes, John locke), associationism (david hume, john stuart mill) Descartes argued for the division of the mind and body said mind and body were separate and fundamentally different mind was immaterial and province of god. Wundt said that psychology should model after science. Said that psychology"s main focus was on consciousness the awareness of immediate experience cognition. Methods of investigating had to be as scientific as those of chemists and physicists.