PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Evolutionary Psychology, Abraham Maslow, Hindsight Bias
10 Dec 2017
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What were some of the important milestones in psychologies early development: aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality. Edward branford aimed to discover the structure of the mind. Structuralism is an early school of thought that used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. It failed because the results varied from person to person and required and from experience to experience. Someone who was smart and vocal to be able to convey ideas. Early school of thought promoted by william james and in uenced by. Darwin, it explored how mental and behavioral processes function how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and ourish. First woman in psychology: mary whiton calkins went to harvard and was refused a degree in psychology when we completed all the required courses. The view that psychology is an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental process.
