PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Wolfgang Köhler, Operational Definition
20 Sep 2016
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Introduction to the science of psychology and research in psychology. Psychology: the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to make application to the human world. Bases of a science: philosophy (empiricism) and biology (evolution) led to psychology. Descarte: dualism, humans are machines, they do not think have no soul. Hobbes: materialism inspires empiricism (born with no knowledge, we learn through experiences), matter and energy exist and where your soul comes from. We only know what we can see/test. All contents of the mind come from experiencing the world. Nativists: the innate mechanisms underlying human emotion, drives, capacity for reason, etc. are there because they served our ancestors. (humans are born with all their knowledge) Nature (the environment) selects those individuals that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce. Linked humans to the rest of the natural world. William wundt = founder father of psychology from leipzig, germany. Established the first psychology laboratory in 1879.
