01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Forensic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Heredity

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Psychology-psyche (soul/mind), logos (word); the systematic study of behavior and experience. 1. 2 psychology then and now psychology began as a deliberate attempt to start a new science. Wilhelm wundt: 1879: 1st lab intended exclusively for psychological research, introspect-to look within oneself. Edward titchener: 1910: structuralism-an attempt to describe the structures that compose the mind (sensations, feelings, images) William james: functionalism-to learn how ppl. produce useful behaviors late 1800s-early 1900s, psychologists: study of vision and other sensations (mental experience, psychiatrists: abnormal behavior, physical stimuli and psychological perceptions. Psychophysical function-mathematical description of the relationship between physical stimulus and its perceived properties. Darwin and study of animal intelligence: darwin believed other animals should share some features in common with humans (including degree of intelligence, psychologists today. Measuring human intelligence: francis galton: among 1st to try to measure intelligence and to ask whether intellectual variations were based on heredity.