PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Abraham Maslow, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Today

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Module 1: the story of psychology (reading notes) To be human is to be curious about ourselves and the world around us. Before 300 b. c. e. , the greek naturalist and philosopher aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality. Psychology was born on a december day in 1879, in a small, third-floor room at germany"s university of leipzig: two young men were helping an austere, middle-aged professor, Their machine measured the time lag between people"s hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key. Note: wilhelm wundt wundt established the first psychology laboratory at the university of leipzig, germany staffed by wundt and by psychology"s first graduate students. Branches of psychology formed such as structuralism and functionalism. Note: edward bradford titchener titchener used introspection to search for the mind"s structural elements. Philosopher-psychologst william james thought it would be a better idea to consider the evolved functions of our thought and feelings.