PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins
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1. 1 psychology"s early history: psyche = soul or mind, logos = study of a subject. A new science is born: wilhelm wundt (1832-1920): german professor; made psychology an independent discipline, founder of psychology, declared that psychology be the scienti c study of conscious experience. Effects of environment on the overt behavior of humans and animals. Unconscious motives and experiences govern personality & mental disorders. Humans are free, rational beings with potential for personal growth. Behavior can"t be understood without examining how people acquire, store, & process info. Functioning can be explained in terms of brain structures and biochemical processes that underlie behavior. Evolutionary bases of behavior in humans and animals. Behavior patterns have evolved to solve adaptive problems. Psychology comes of age as a profession: clinical psychology: branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders, after wwii, academic psychologists were pressed into service as clinicians; continued after war.
