PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean Piaget, Donald O. Hebb, Mental Rotation
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Separation of mind and body or whether knowledge was inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism: aristotle"s theory of memory: similarity, contrast, and continuity how memories come about. A new science is born: the contributions of wundt and hall: Studied under wundt for a short time, had a huge part in american psychology ( reels" of firsts) Reels" include: establishing the first research lab for psychology in america in 1883, in 1887 launched the first psychology journal and was the driving force to establish the american. The battle of schools begins: structuralism vs. functionalism: Functionalism - based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function/purpose of consciousness rather than its structure: emergence of functionalism came from william james. Structuralists"s approach missed the real nature of conscious experience consists of a continuous flow of thought. Interested about how people adapt their behaviour to real life demands. Watson alters psychology"s course as behaviourism makes its debut:
