PS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Yokohama Rubber Company, Abraham Maslow, Statistical Significance
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Psychology: the science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems. The term psychology" became pertinent in 18th century but humans have always wondered about the mind. Psychology is study of behavior and mental processes such as thought and emotion. Roots of psychology are questions posed by philosophy and methods borrowed from the physical sciences (philosophy and physiology) Psychology is philosophy, philosophers such as socrates, aristotle and plato debated what is was to be human, alive and to experience things. Wilhelm wundt was the founder of psychology as a discipline, established the first formal psych lab in leipzig germany in 1879 where he conducted the first documented psychology study: structuralism. Wilhelm wundt"s goal was to understand how the simplest elements of structure of conscious experience combine to create more complex perceptions and behaviors (structuralism)
