PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Muzafer Sherif, Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
17 Sep 2013
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Psychology is a science that focuses on the causes of behavior, studies mental processes, and applies it to solve problems. Casual events = events that cause other events. Late 19th century is when psych became a thing -- industrial revolution, accepting of new ideas: wilhelm wundt (1879) formally established psychology as a science, germany. Subject matter: elements of consciousness -- study the brain and its pieces (like periodic table of elements, the brain has elements too) See below: edward titchner (1920), early 30s (a student of wundt) Subject matter: structure of consciousness, structuralism; which died with the success of gestalt psych. structionalism studies the relationship between elements of consciousness aka reductionism. Earliest cognition studies (u. s) -- had problems being accepted in the u. s: herman ebbinghaus (~1890) Beginning of the study of memory; elements and structure of memory -- the center of the mind. Early cognition studies: max wertheimer (~1910), gustav kofka (~1920), wolfgang kohler (~1935) -- germany.
