ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: British Psychological Society, James Sully, Cataplexy
Document Summary
Academic psychology was developed & institutionalised over the last decades of the 19th century. Psychology started with the study of the mind based almost exclusively on the unreliable method of introspection structuralism in. Wundt"s laboratory (brought to america by titchener), challenged by functionalism (not in europe), gestalt psychology. Behaviourism redefined psychology (1920s onward) as the study of behaviour based primarily on objective method of experimentation (in reaction to unreliability of introspective method) In reaction to limited research agenda & theoretical bankruptcy of behaviourism, the cognitive revolution restored the mind as the proper subject of psychology (now with benefit of rigorous experimental methods developed within behaviourism) Beginnings of experimental psychology (germany) 19th century. Enlightenment & pietism (protestant) people fought against religion-dominance in universities and actually got through with it in 1740. Scholastic method replaced by reaching of new science without interference from theological faculty. Resulted in modernisation of prussia new university model based on wissenschaft & bildung controlled by.
