PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Johns Hopkins University, James Mckeen Cattell, Mary Whiton Calkins

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Psychology is practical but also a way of thinking. As a science, it demands that researchers ask precise questions about issues and that they test their ideas through systematic observation. It provides a way of building knowledge that is relatively accurate and dependable. Has developed from philosophical speculations about the mind into a modern science. Only a little over 100 years ago that it emerged as a scienti c discipline. A new science is born: the contributions of wundt and hall. By the 1970 s, a small number of scholars in philosophy and physiology were actively exploring questions about the mind. Wilhelm wundt (1832-1920), a german professor, mounted a campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. 1879 - wundt established the rst formal laboratory for research in psychology at the. Wundt established the rst psychological research journal. Wundt (1874) declared that the new psychology should be modeled after physics and chemistry.