PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, René Descartes
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What is psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Mental processes thoughts, feelings, and motives that cannot be observed directly. What makes humans different from other animals is the possession of a soul. Studying the book is not sufficient to study the soul / mind . The souls put opinions into the mind. Referred to the mind as the soul to appease the church. Founded the first psychology laboratory in leipzig, germany, 1879. Objective introspection the process of objectively examining and measuring one"s own thoughts. Psychology with a focus on the structure of the mine. Margaret f. washburn first female ph. d. in psychology (1894) Functionalism - probed the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior. * the school of psychology studying how the mind allows people to function in the world. * mental traits that help us survive should be passed on. Gestalt psychology- the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
