PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, American Psychological Association, Edward B. Titchener
15 Mar 2016
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1. the science of mental life (william james, 1890: the study of human or animal behaviour (webster"s dicionary, 1988, the scieniic study of mind and behaviour (schacter et al. , 2014) Logos- greed for the study of a subject. Rene descartes (1595-1650: dualism (interacionism, body is physical enity, mind is non-physical, spiritual enity operaing under free will, mind and body are separate, disinct eniies involved in the producion of behaviour, pineal gland. Branch of biology concerned with the scieniic study of how living organisms funcion. Established irst independent psychology lab at u. of leipzig 1879 (dob of psych) Studied consciousness (one"s awareness of immediate experience: percepion, emoion, stanley hall (1844-1924) Established irst research lab in us at john hopkins, 1883. Task of psychology was to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to invesigate the relaionship among these elements. Find fundamental components of sensaion through scieniic method. Introspecion: the careful, systemaic observaion of one"s own conscious experience: edward titchener simulus.
