PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Telegraph Key, Psychological Science
17 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 Lecture 1 Notes
Introduction
What Is Psychology?
• Once upon a time, on a planet in this neighborhood of the universe, there came to be
people.
• Soon thereafter, these creatures became intensely interested in themselves and in one
aother: Who are e?
• What produces our thoughts?
• Our feelings?
• Our actions?
• Ad ho are e to uderstad ad aage those aroud us?
Psychological Science Is Born
• What ere soe iportat ilestoes i psyhology’s early deelopet?
• To be human is to be curious about ourselves and the world around us.
• Before 300 b.c.e., the Greek naturalist and philosopher Aristotle theorized about
learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality.
• Today we chuckle at some of his guesses, like his suggestion that a meal makes us
sleepy by causing gas and heat to collect around the source of our personality, the
heart.
• But credit Aristotle with asking the right questions.
• Psyhology’s First Laoratory Philosophers’ thikig aout thikig otiued util the
birth of psychology as we know it, on a December day in 1879, in a small, third-floor
roo at Geray’s Uiersity of Leipzig.
• There, two young men were helping an austere, middle- aged professor, Wilhelm
Wundt, create an experimental apparatus.
• Their ahie easured the tie lag etee people’s hearig a all hit a platfor ad
their pressing a telegraph key (Hunt, 1993).
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