PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karen Horney, Gestalt Psychology, Neuroticism
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Ve core courses: behavioural neuroscience, developmental psychology, cognitive. Lecture note psychology, clinical psychology and social psychology. Psychology is hard to de ne because people are hard to de ne. Our emotions are not always the same as our thoughts, not always captured by our thoughts. Psychology is about people and what makes them up. Freud (1880s: made an important contribution to the beginnings of psychology (psychoanalysis, this tradition is more in medicine than psychology (as psychiatry) Testing tradition (1870s: seen most heavily in the study of intelligence testing, one of the key players was sir francis galton. Still represented in the evolutionary side of psychology but it is the narrowest of the three traditions. Academic approach (laboratory psychology: wilhelm wundt set up the rst psychology laboratory. Wanted a clear scienti c approach to psychology. Believed thoughts could be divided into mental atoms. Inspired important ideas from other people: william james. Made important contributions, brought psychology to north america: john watson.
