PSYC 3125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Ewald Hering, Johann Spurzheim
9 Nov 2015
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Popular psychology refers to the public interest in psychology. There must have been people who serviced with psychological nature such as sorcerer, wizard, charmer, shaman, medicine man, enchanter, seer and priest. Their trade involved medicine, religion, and psychology. Dating of modern psychology begins with the establishment of a research laboratory by. Wilhelm wundt at the university of leipzig in germany in 1879. James capshew stated modern psychology is just an experimental laboratory. First experimental lab in canada was established in university of toronto. When this new psychology came to north america two had already been there practise of psychology and mental philosophy. Practioners of psychology included phrenologists and physiognomists. Phrenologists measured the shape of the skull of clients, looking for bumps and indentation that signified talents or deficiencies. Physiognomists studied contours and features of their clients faces, making determinations of personality traits and abilities based on such things as shape of nose, height of cheek bones, distance between eyes.
