PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Telegraph Key, Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology

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

Document Summary

Before 300 b. c. , aristotle (greek naturalist/philosopher) theorized about learning/memory, moivaion/emoion, and percepion/personality. Aimed to discover the structural elements of mind. Method = engage people in self-relecive introspecion. Report elements of their experience as they looked at a rose, listened to a metronome, smelled/tasted things. We don"t always know why we feel what we feel/do what we do. Privately instructed female calkins when no one else would (who was later denied her phd) Considered the evolved funcions of our thoughts/feelings (why do the nose/brain smell/think?) Assumed that thinking developed because it was adapive (contributed to ancestral survival) Consciousness = funcion = enables us to consider past/adjust present/plan future: gestalt psychology, behaviorism, psychoanalysis. The list of pioneering psychologists illustrates psychology"s origins in many disciplines and countries. In early days, wundt/titchener focused on inner sensaions/images/feels. James also engaged in introspecive examinaion of stream of consciousness/emoion. Freud emphasized how emoional responses to childhood experiences/unconscious thoughts afect out behavior.