ACCT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Animal Magnetism, American Psychologist, Human Brain

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: ACCT - Accounting
• Course: ACCT 101
• Professor: Chouhai

Document Summary

The perception of psychology in the usa at the beginning of the 20th century. The expansion of psychology around the start of 20th century: many psychology labs had opened until 1900, 1892: apa was founded. Forum for researchers to discuss their findings. Established 2 journals that still exist today. The first american psychology: functionalism: usa invented eugenics (also negative eugenics, but were also convinced that human characteristics also depend on the environment. Human actions could be changed and controlled: psychology could be applied practically and used for many fields, with functionalism the us separated from introspection and structuralism (task 5) Psychology and its position within universities: laboratories were mostly set up in philosophical or theological institutes, universities stressed that psychology should stay close to philosophy and not become a mere science. Phrenology = view that mental functions are localised in the brain and that the capacity corresponds to size of the according brain part.