PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Phlegm, Mendelian Inheritance
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What is psychology: mental processes and behaviour (interaction with one another, whole groups and cultures, parts of individual (cell on up, level of brain, system level) History: starts earliest pages of recorded history, starts when people wondered about human nature and human behaviour, why people do what they, asking questions, figuring out the world we live in. Beginnings: psychology = philosophy, no unique domain of psychology, philosophers were the ones a(cid:396)gui(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat it (cid:449)as to (cid:271)e (cid:862)hu(cid:373)a(cid:374), (cid:862)ali(cid:448)e(cid:863), a(cid:374)d to (cid:862)e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e thi(cid:374)gs(cid:863, science, encouraged empirical examination (question, hypothesize, testing, sensation and perception (studying thresholds) Early ideas: hippocrates, 4 humors, choleric yellow bile, sanguine blood, phlegmatic - phlegm, melancholic black bile, define personality, character, health. The change: wilhelm wundt (acclaimed, made psychology into discipline, 1879 leipzig, germany, conducted experiments, but not like today, questioned experience, belief that all (cid:862)e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e (cid:396)edu(cid:272)ed to (cid:271)asi(cid:272) ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts.
