PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phlegm, Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Psychology of the study of the mind, the brain, and of behaviour. There are many different divisions of psychology, though they can be broken down into five main divisions: neuroscience: the study of the mind through the physical processes of the brain. Psychology is thought of to be created in 1879 by william wundt, who conducted the first. The ancient greek philosophers developed the starting point for the science of psychology to develop. Hippocrates: the first physician, credited with the idea of personality. He also developed the theory of humorism , where he said the body was composed of 4 fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, and psychological disorders are caused by an imbalance of these four fluids. Hippocrates was also the first person to discover that the left brain controls the right side of the body, and the same is correct in reverse.