PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Semicircular Canals, Insomnia, Confounding

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Before 300 bce aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, and perception and personality. Psychology as we know it was born december 1879 in germany by wilhelm. Mary whiton calkins: james" student who became a pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be president of the american. Margaret flow washburn: the first woman to receive a psychology phd, author of the influential book the animal mind. Up until this point psychology was defined as the science of mental life . This changed with john b. watson and b. f. skinner. They dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior . They developed behaviorism: behaviorism: psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes, one of two major forces well into the 1960s. Freudian psychology: the other major force: emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior.