PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward B. Titchener, Peer Pressure, Group Dynamics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Learn about mind by looking at how brain works. Before was ancient greece (socrates, plato, aristotle- first to target brain as human nature, hippocrates-physician proposed humours that are principals based on medicine, galen) China: confucius (551 bce) -multiple tests, first organizational psychologist. Muslim scholars: al-kindi -recognising science of depression, first psychotherapist. Middle ages (5th15 century): scientific learning comes to halt due and was replaced by church doctrine, they proposed that exercise helped with mental disorders and they were possessed by devil. Renaissance (14th-17th century): rebirth of knowledge, focus on here and now not afterlife. Mid-1800 europe: no longer a branch of speculation (philosophy) Conscious experience can be broken down into smaller pieces. Too subjective, cannot validate what people say about their inner world and assuming they understand. Whole of personal experiences is different form of the sum of its individual elements. Phenomenology: method used how people"s perception is looked at the world in a unified way.