PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Psychophysics, Psych

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Lecture 2: brief history of ideas and topics. Wilheme wundt: physiology informs us about those life phenomena that we perceive by our external senses. In psychology, the person looks upon himself as from within and tries to explain the interrelations of those processes thats this internal observation discloses . Science of mental life : inspired position later leading to functionalism; emphasis in psychology should be on purpose and utility of behaviour (opposite of structuralism . Psychologists as the behaviourist views it is a purely objective natural scince. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behaviour. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviourist recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. Human behaviour in line with darwinian thought is just a more complex form of behaviour of other species.