PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychological Association, Autism Spectrum, Canadian Psychological Association
17 Sep 2013
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Psychology the science of the mind and behaviour. Psych 1x03: mind all the mental processes and subjective experiences that make up your sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, motives and emotions, behaviour all observable actions. Psychology began with a philosophical question about behaviour and the mind and developed into objective tests of these very questions. Psychology stems from greek words: psyche soul, logos word. Psychology has a long past, but a short history hermann ebbinghaus. Psychology as a formal discipline only emerged 100+ years ago. History stretches back to intellectual roots in philosophy and physiology. Historians such as socrates, plato, aristotle and hippocrates explored issues of human thought and behaviour, nature of free will, the source of knowledge and the mind-body relationship. Experimental psychology (1800"s) empirical tests were developed for the claims and assumptions held on human psychology leading to a modern understanding of the brain and nervous system through physiological tests of sensory mechanisms.
