PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Unconscious Mind, Tabula Rasa

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Harvard astronomer owen gingerich stated that our brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos . Greek naturalist and philosopher aristotle theorized about learning, memory, motivation, emotion, perception and personality. Staffed by wilhelm wundt and two psychology students. Their machine measured the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressuring telegraph key. Found that people respond in 1/10th of a second. Wundt was also looking to measure atoms of the mind fastest and simplest mental process. Two early branches of psychology were structuralism and functionalism. Physicist and chemists discerned the structure of matter. Edward bradford aimed to discover the mind"s structure. He engaged people in self re ective introspection, training them to report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, smelled a scent, and tasting a substance. Roots from the theorist charles darwin, james assumed that thinking/smelling was adaptive.