PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prologue: Edward B. Titchener, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Aristotle was the first to ask questions about learning, memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality. Psychology was born in december 1879 by wilhelm wundt and his experiment. Edward bradford titchener aimed to discover the mind"s structure. Asked people to describe their experiences by asking questions such as: What were their immediate sensations, images, and feelings?". Unreliable results varied from person to person required articulate people. Promoted by james and influenced by darwin. Explored how mental and behavioural processes function. How they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. James believed humans developed the ability to think because it was adaptive. Encouraged exploration of the functions of emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness. The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behaviour without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists agree with psych being an objective science, but not the second part.