PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Developmental Psychology, Hypothalamus, Acetylcholine

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

How psychology developed: psychology"s focus, methods, and explanatory models have changed as it has evolved, the term psychology comes from two greek words, psyche, meaning the soul, and logos, referring to the study of a subject. (this term did not gain more than rare usage among scholars until the early 18th century), scholars interested in the history of psychology often point to developments in philosophy and physiology as influencing the course of early psychology, philosophers such as socrates, plato, and aristotle, considered and debated issues of relevance to psychology, including subjects such as whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism), aristotle"s theory of memory suggested that memories are the result of three principles of association similarity, contrast, and contiguity, descartes famously argued for the dualism of mind & body, that they were separate and fundamentally different, the establishment of the first research laboratory in psychology by wilhelm.