PSYC 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eliza, Cleverbot, Neurology
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Psychology definition: psyche greek for soul logos study of thus psychology"s literal meaning is the study of the soul or in our case the mind . Preceding this the study was merely the theorizing of those in physiology and philosophy. Wundt then declared it would be a study between physics and chemistry, focusing on the minds consciousness, the awarness of the imediate experience and mental process. Many of his students fanned out and expanded laboratory in europe and north america between 1883- Structuralism (wilhelm wundt) process of studying ones consciousness into basic elements and how these elements are related, didnt have tools so trained people to carefully use introspection. Introspection, the careful, systematic self observation of one"s own conscious experience, made the subject more objective and aware. This of course was a contribruting factor to the demise of structuralism as no subject would be completely objective and an independent party would not be able to collect the data themselves.
