[PSYC 100] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 103 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Psychology: is the science of behavior, thought, and experience. Many writings from philosophers, such as socrates, plato, and aristotle, dealt with issues that are still relevant today. Hermann von helmholtz, ernst weber, and gustav fechner came up with this sub-discipline of psychology when they were interested in how our perceptual organs gain information about the world. Von helmholtz and other psychophysicists developed a variety of methods for measuring human sensation that are still in use today. Founding fathers of psychology: wilhem wundt and william james. Wundt focus on smaller elements that made up human experience. James focus of purposed associated with various human traits. Structural psychologists break complex phenomena down to their smallest components and then study these components, assuming that if they understand all the parts, they will understand the whole. Wundt, von helholtz, fechner and other 19th-century german psychologists are now considered to have followed the structuralism point of view.