PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Psychology Today, Middle Ages
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1879 kind of new science compared to physics, biology. History in 1879, opened the rst psychology lab in leipzig, germany. Rst to do psychological experiments, but wundt wasn"t the. Rst to think about behavior can"t help it, see someone act weird, can"t help but think something is there around 620 bc. Pythogoras abstract reason reason is a function of the soul through history, many would think of the soul and mind as similar/ the same. Rst to say we have a mind and body. Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid- 20th century in response tosigmund freud"s psychoanalytic theory and b. f. [1] with its roots running from socrates through the renaissance, this approach emphasizes an individual"s inherent drive towards self-actualization and creativity. It typically holds that people are inherently good. It adopts a holistic approach to human existence and pays special attention to such phenomena as creativity, free will, and human potential.
