PSY 102 Final: CHAPTERS 1-12
4 Oct 2016
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Psyc 100 - chapter 1 - lecture 1 - research, psychology, and you. Allows one to reach informed conclusions and generate new questions. Will be at the core of this class. Chinese/muslim philosophers and scientists speculated about human behavior. In nineteenth-century europe, psychology emerged as a scientific discipline. Ancient greek philosophers aristotle and plato debated the source of human psychology. Received view today: nature and nurture influence each other and are inseparable. Early scholars: the mind is entirely separate from and in control of the body. 1600s: cartesian dualism suggested body and mind were indeed separate but that some mental functions resulted from bodily functions. Early 1800s: john stuart mill agrued psychology should be a science of observation and of experiment. 1879: wilhelm wundut established the first psychology laboratory. Laboratories were established throughout europe, canada, and the united states. Edward titchener: pioneered a school of thought that became known as structuralism.
