PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Sq3R, Perception

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Before 300 b. c. e. , the greek naturalist and philosopher aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality. December, 1879 in germany"s university of leipzig. Wilhelm wundt - established the 1st psych laboratory. Wundt was seeking to measure atoms of the mind the fastest and simplest mental processes. Edward bradford titchener aimed to discover the mind"s structure. He engaged people in self-reflective introspection(looking inward), training them to report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, listened to a metronome, smelled a scent, or tasted a substance. Consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. Under the influence of evolutionary theorist charles darwin, james assumed that thinking, like smelling, developed because it was adaptive it contributed to our ancestors" survival. Consciousness enables us to consider our past, adjust to our present, and plan our future. James encouraged explorations of the functions of emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness.