PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins, Autoimmune Disease
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Aristotle - body and mind were completely separate entities. Later, we know that mind affects the body all the time. You get sick closer to midterms or finals, due to stress. He tried to observe and guess, but now we have hypothesis. First actual laboratory - study of mental life by wilhelm wundt. He not only want to observe phenomenon, but measure them. How the structure of the mind is related to the function of the mind - titchener. Are there places in the mind that is related to behavior. He started asking people about their experiences, self-reported data. He took self reported data from participants, to arrive at structure, then function. William james - less interested in structure, more interested in what it was doing. Margaret floy washburn - wrote a book, also. Very strict behaviorist would argue that mental thoughts were not important, relevant. Most extremist would say thoughts do not exist.
