PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Oval Window, Near-Sightedness, Color Vision

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Psychology: psyche = soul and logos= study for an subject study of the mind. A german prof. mounted a campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. German universities were in a healthy period of expansion, so resources were available for new disciplines. 1879 in germany: he succeeded in establishing the first formal lab for research in psychology at the university of leipzig. This date is considered to be psychology"s date of birth. Therefore he is referred to the founder of psychology. He declared that the new psychology should be a science modelled after fields such as physics and chemistry. He claimed that psychology"s primary focus was consciousness (awareness of immediate experience). Therefore it became the scientific study of conscious experience which kept it focused on mind and mental processes. Important contributor to the rapid growth of psychology in america. He established america"s first research lab in psychology at john hopkins university.