PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychoanalysis, Empiricism, Gestalt Psychology
20 Sep 2016
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Psychology is: the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to make application to the human world. Hobbes: materialism, inspires empiricism, we don"t know what soul is. We only know what we can see/test. All contents of the mind come from experiencing the world. Nativists: the innate mechanisms underlying human emotion, drives, capacity for reason, etc. are there because they served our ancestors. Nature (the environment) selects those individuals that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce. Linked humans to the rest of the natural world. 1879, modern psychology is born, first formal psychological laboratory is established by wundt. 5 research directions/schools of thought emerged in psychology in the late 1800"s and early. 1900"s: structuralism, gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, functionalism, behaviorism. Wilhelm wundt: father of psychology, established the first psychology lab in 1879, interested in physiological thresholds and speed of mental processes, studied basic elements of consciousness via introspection.
