PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wilhelm Wundt, Word Association, Cyril Burt

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

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Chapter 10 | lecture 7|evolution and individual differences. Synthetic philosophy/psychology is the idea that knowledge and experience can be explained in terms of evolutionary principles: talks about the mind existing in a present form. Applying theory of evolution to human nature and human society. Theory of evolution (things can change in time); natural selection. Darwin"s in uence of psychology shows that it is just as important to study behaviour as it is to study the mind: he played an important role in the development of the schools of functionalism and structuralism. Continuity in mental functioning between humans and lower animals (there are similarities: implied an understanding of animal behaviour vital to understanding human behaviour. The goal became how organisms functioned in adapting; the mind as a tool to help us adapt to our environment. Method and techniques were broadened in scope (applying to all people: the eld can now be measured by different methods than just experimental methods.