PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward B. Titchener, Sigmund Freud, Xenophanes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of mental processes and behaviour. When studying why a certain behaviour or mental process occurs, one can study the influences of: the brain - neural activity, the person - emotions, ideas, thoughts, the group - friends, family, culture. Many myths and ceremonies developed as a way to describe, explain, predict, and control reality: trephining, bound submersion test for witch . Medicine also contributed: xenophanes and anthropomorphism, hippocrates developed one of the first psychological theories. Physical and psychological health are influenced by the 4 humors. Wilhelm wundt: founder of psychology, established first psychology lab in 1879, studied consciousness, started a branch of psychology called voluntarism. An attempt to identify all of the elements of consciousness. Goal was to describe observable mental processes rather than to. Looking within yourself to identify conscious elements; a process called introspection explain, predict, or control: student of wundt.