PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Torsten Wiesel, James Mark Baldwin

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Ancient greek philosophers (socrates, plato, aristotle) considered and debated subjects like is there a separaion of the mind and body, and is knowledge inborn (naivism) or is it gained through experience (empiricism). Many of their early ideas are sill with us today. Aristotle theory of memory is sill used today as the foundaion to many theories of memory. His concepion of memory suggested that memories are the result of three principles of associaion; similarity, contrast, coniguity. Development of ideas about mind, behavior and human nature coninued as classic philosophy and developed through the periods of the renaissance. Emergence of psychology as a disinct discipline was believed to have began from the work of. In 1879 wundt succeeded in establishing the irst formal laboratory for research in psychology, is known as the founder of psychology (1879 is said to be the birth of psychology) Wundt declared that psychology should be a science modelled ater ields like physics and chemistry.