PY - Psychology PY 100L Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Edward B. Titchener, Abraham Maslow
26 Oct 2016
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Psychology is the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to make. Notes 1 & 2 application to the human world. The study of private and public behaviors. Dualism- humans have an earthly material (body) and unearthly material (soul) Hobbes thought only matter and energy existed=materialism. Empiricism= reject the supernatural, observation is more important than faith, seeing is believing, we are born blank (tabula rasa) Nativists said we were born with emotions, drive, capacity for reason. 1879 psychology is born in leipzig, germany. Edward titchener (student of wundt, father of psychology) father of structuralism. I(cid:374)trospe(cid:272)tio(cid:374)= (cid:373)ethod used to e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess, e(cid:448)aluati(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) conscious experience. The whole is more than a sum of the parts. U(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious (cid:272)auses of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior, the(cid:455) are i(cid:374) us (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the(cid:455)"re doi(cid:374)g it. Id- bad (pleasure seeking) - do what you want, ego- middle ground- tries to find a middle, superego- good- right and wrong.
