PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kurt Koffka, Abraham Maslow, Sigmund Freud

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Psyc100- introduction to psychology- lecture 1- psychology research: psychology- Science of behavior and mental processes: folk wisdom- is the attempt to understand the world around us. Good psychologist are trained to ask: good questions, gather useful information, arrive at appropriate conclusions, develop and ask further questions based on information collected. Wilhem wundt: established first psychology laboratory at university of leipzig in germany. Edward b titchener: brought wundt"s type od psychology to u. s, coined the term structuralism, developed method called introspection. What is functionalism: new approach developed in us in late 1800s, concerned with purposes of consciousness- what the mind does and why, wanted to see how people use information to adapt to their environment. Gestalt psychology: emphasized perception of whole differs from that of individual stimuli that make up whole, consciousness is broken down into elements, with other key members max wetheimer, wolfgang kohler and kurt koffka. Pavlov and skinner: focused on behavioral psychology.