PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Wilhelm Wundt, Evolutionary Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes . Early philosophy 400 bc - socrates/plato/aristotle mind, memory, self, mind/body. Philosophers continue interest 1500s-1700"s descartes/mill/locke . Early medicine 1800"s brain/mind/memory gall,broca, wernike localization of function. F of behaviour wundt 1879 first lab in europe focus on sensation/consciousness/introspection. Self-concept; always wanting to compare oneself to others. After a person dies, scientists analyzed ones brain and looked at the behavioral processes. G. stanley hall first research lab 1883 johns hopkins, first journal, first major organization american psychological association 1892. Hall studied with wundt and then with william james at harvard. William james what should i be . Artist, medicine at harvard, amazon biology, return to medicine/deteriorating mental health, drops out, travels to europe, learns of new science (psych), finished med degree, psych at harvard, writes principles of psychology 1890, most influential book. Schools, perspectives on the science of human nature. Discreet psychological elements packed together to form behaviour and consciousness.