PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,2: Psychosomatic Medicine, Franz Mesmer, Humanistic Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

How psychology became a science (module 1. 2, pg 12~28) Belief that all events are governed by lawful cause-and-effect relationships. Gravity; dropping an object will make it fall. Saying that knowledge about the world is based on careful observation (not on common sense or speculation) Whatever we see or measure should be observable by anyone else who follows the same methods scientific theories must be logical explanations of how the observations fit together. Although the empiricist might say, (cid:862) eei(cid:374)g is (cid:271)elie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g,(cid:863) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:396)easo(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out observations are just as important. Influences from the ancients: philo- sophical insights into behaviour. Beliefs of a culture at a specific time in history reason why some ideas take off immediately, whereas other perfectly good ideas may go unnoticed for years. Prevented psychological science from emerging in the 1600s. People were not ready to accept a science that could be applied to human behaviour and thought.