PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Telegraph Key, Psychological Science

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Department

Psychology

Course Code

PSYC 1010

Professor

Agnieszka Kopinska

Lecture

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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

aother: Who are e?

• What produces our thoughts?

• Our feelings?

• Our actions?

• Ad ho are e to uderstad ad aage those aroud us?

Psychological Science Is Born

• What ere soe iportat ilestoes i psyhology’s early deelopet?

• 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.

• Psyhology’s First Laoratory Philosophers’ thikig aout thikig otiued util the

birth of psychology as we know it, on a December day in 1879, in a small, third-floor

roo at Geray’s Uiersity of Leipzig.

• There, two young men were helping an austere, middle- aged professor, Wilhelm

Wundt, create an experimental apparatus.

• Their ahie easured the tie lag etee people’s hearig a all hit a platfor ad

their pressing a telegraph key (Hunt, 1993).

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