PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Knowledge, Karl Popper, Folk Psychology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

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Lecture 1 - history of psychology ! we study history to identify mistakes of the past, give credit to those who deserve it, acknowledgements! Psychological failure examples: phrenology- an old study which can tell a lot about your personality based on the bumps on the skull, that homosexuality was a disease ! Some history : roslin franklin- helped develop the study of the structure of dna, hippocrates , edward twitmar- discovered classical the same thing as pavlov did! **the zodiac man. had to study astrology in germany to be doctor because your attitudes and different parts of your body were controlled by the stars and the times of the month! From the greek > romans, > dark ages ! measurement. father of modern western science! Dark ages: very un likely to survive child birth, probably be diseased and poor, knowledge was divided into 2 parts:, sr thomas aquinas- merged greek and christian thought, earth at the centre of the universe.