PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abraham Maslow, Electric Shock, Cognitive Revolution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Ayca Guler- Edwards

Document Summary

They were very important in the establishment of psych. Stanley hall, first lab in usa, launched first psych journal and american psych assoc. They studied the conscious thought, the quality and content of our thoughts and feelings, by using self-observation. Understanding what a person is feeling and sensing. They were exposing their subjects to different environment to affect their senses. William james, focused on the purpose of the mind. Think of the mind at the house, structuralism studied the foundation, bricks, walls and james said we should look at the function of that house instead. Development of children, tried to applied psych in the real world. (studied conscious mind as well) He was very important. (thought that every man would realize at a point they don"t have a penis) he brought 2 important things: existence of unconscious, and the unconscious conflict.