PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Empiricism, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Humanistic Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

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Influences from the physics: gustav fechner made one of the earliest explorations. He studied sensation and perception and he demonstrated how the physical and mental worlds interact: fechner coined the term psychophysics which is the study of the relationship between the physical world and the mental representation of that world. Over the course of millions of years of evolution a certain range of behaviours helped people survive and reproduce. Quick quiz 1. 2a - psychology"s philosophical and scientific origins (answers) A: their cigars are missing and someones got to pay: jan believes that all knowledge is acquires through experience with the world. A: a phrenologist: francis galton made a signi cant contribution to psychology by introducing methods for studying how heredity contributes to human behaviour. The beginnings of contemporary psychology: by the late 1800s the zeitgeist had changed so that the study of human behaviour was acceptable.