PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Undercover Cops, Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Norm (Social)

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Lecture #1: psychology evolves in a socio-historical context. Psychology is the study of the soul/mind; therefore it has philosophical and physiological influences. William wundt is considered the founder of psychology as its own discipline. He defined it as the study of the conscious experience and how the mind works: he theorized reaction time the thought meter determined the time between the tone and the patient"s perceived tone. The delay between the two was considered the measurement of thought. Edward tichener was a student of wundt. The sum of total mental experience at any given moment: broken down into components. Studying these components gives a greater understanding of the whole. More interested in describing the conscious experience. This was good in the beginning, but it eventually faded out. No women were allowed in these experiments. Charles darwin"s theory of natural selection played a developmental role in functionalism: those more adapted to the environment are more likely to survive.