CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Wilhelm Wundt, Jean Piaget, Cybernetics
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400 bce: ancient greek philosophers made theories of mind. At this time science has not yet been invented. Little was known about the world; they philosophized about a lot. This is also the ore-history of all disciplines. Philosophers dominated the pre-history until about 1800. 1875: wilhelm wundt opened the first psychology lab. Ebbinghaus did some of the first experiments in memory. 1890s: freud and the case-study technique, william james published. Principles of psychology which is still often quoted today. 1913: john watson"s manifesto for behaviourism published. Held that we cannot directly study mental processes, only stimulus and behaviour. Problems helping pilots who were already experts. Behaviourism started to try to explain difficult things, such as language. Inspired by collaboration of psychologists working with engineers and communications people in war efforts. Was killed by ai, but made a bit of a comeback with neural networks.