PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychodynamics, Tabula Rasa, Edward Thorndike
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Psyc 101 lecture 3 introduction to the science of psychology. History: psychology was born out of philosophy, mind and body, nature vs nurture. We are the blank slate (tabula rasa: wilhelm wundt (1832 1920, father of psychology. Modern psychology was born december 1879: structuralism (named by titchener, wundt"s student) Wundt"s approach to discovering the basic elements, or structures, of mental processes. Structuralism is named because it seeks to identify the structures of the human mind. Consciousness the awareness of an external stimuli and our own mental activity. What is the function? : stream of consciousness the natural flow of thought; a function to help us adapt to our environment. Modern approaches: biological perspective, evolutionary perspective, cognitive perspective, psychodynamic perspective, behavioral perspective, sociocultural perspective, humanistic perspective. In fact, some of his theories are impossible to test scientifically: 2. His views of humans was largely negative and overemphasized sex and aggression.
