PSYC 1115 Chapter Notes -Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn, Wilhelm Wundt
16 Aug 2013
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Greek naturalist and philosopher aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality. He thought that a meal makes people sleepy by causing gas and heat to collect around the source of our personality, the heart. Believed an empirical psychology was possible and fought to establish its independence from physiology and philosophy establishes first psychology laboratory at university of leipzig in 1879. Published principles of physiological psychology in 1890. Wundt was seeking to measure atom of the mind -the fastest and growing mental processes. He engaged people in self-reflective introspection (looking inward) training them to report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, listened to a metronome, smelled a scent, or tasted a substance. And how did these relate to one another. Philsopher-pscyhologist william james thought it would be more productive to consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. Smelling is what the nose does; thinking is what the brain does.
