PSYC 2000 Lecture : Psychology Notes
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That is a myth: you cannot live with only one side of your brain, it is believed evolutionary that our brains are smaller than they used to be (neanderthals, hypnosis does not increase our memory. 1. 2 how did structuralism and functionalism differ, and who were the important people in those early fields: in 1879 psychology began as a science of its own in germany with the establishment of wundt"s psychology laboratory. He developed the technique of objective introspection: titchener, a student of wundt, brought psychology in the form of structuralism to america. Structuralism died out in the early twentieth century. African americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made important contributions to the study of human and animal behavior: functionalism influenced the modern fields of educational psychology, evolutionary psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology. 1. 4 what are the basic ideas behind the seven modern perspectives, and what were the important contributions of skinner, maslow, and.
