PSY1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Australian Psychological Society, Sigmund Freud, Determinism

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY1011
• Professor: Dr Christopher Siva

Document Summary

Rene descartest (1596-1650): french mathematician philosopher and physiologist. The criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive. (cid:862)cogito ergo sum or i think, therefore i am. The hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s as a (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula rasa(cid:863) a(cid:374)d we lear(cid:374) through e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Humans have descended from animals by modification through principles of natural selection. Study of animal behaviour as model for human behaviour influence on behaviourism. Began the first journal of psychology: philosophical studies (1881) Opened up first university based lab of psychology at university of leipzig (1879) Sought to investigate the immediate experiences of consciousness, including sensations, feelings, volitions, apperception and ideas. Founded by: edward titchner (1867 1927) student of wundt. To learn about the structure of the mind through analysing elementary conscious experience (like wundt) Elements of consciousness: sensation, images and affections (feelings) Decline of structuralism partly due to criticisms of introspection as an experimental method.