Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Developmental Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Look at the heading, and ask yourself what it is about. 43% clinical, 11% counseling, 4% developmental, 5% educational, 8% experimental, 7% industrial/organizational, 2% personality, 7% school, 4% social, and 9% others (legal psych, or maybe considered in more than one category) Most psychologists are clinical -> though it"s not the only part. Rene descartes: philosopher, not a psychologist. Interested in human behaviour, and how the body works -> reflex arch. Gustav fechner: author, philosophy and religion, came up with a way of measuring sensory experience -> his methods are still used today. Wilhelm wundt: founder of psychology, 1879 -> first psychology lab, his work is on structuralism, and experiences. William james: studied at harvard, write the first textbook of psychology, bit of a functionalist, tried to get mary calkins into harvard. Sigmund freud: a physician, not a psychologist, studied hysteria. Carl rogers: humanist, need to think about people who have value systems, rogerian approach to therapy.