PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Clinical Psychology, Jean Piaget, Sq3R
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Reena virk, girl who was beaten and burned to death by what she thought were her friends. Reenas death and life bring more attention to bullying. Psychology, consisting of psyche: soul and logos referring to study means, study of the mind. Aristotle theory of memory: similarity, contrast and contiguity. Philosophy developed through periods such as renaissance, descartes, post renaissance thomas. Descartes argued greatly for the separation of the mind from the body. Wundt, had enormous impact on psychology. he pushed to have it separate from philosophy and physiology. 1879 wundt succeeds in opening the first lad for psychology. Four years later launched the first psychology journal into the u. s. a. Elected first president of the american psychology association (apa) Diversity in schools of thought create enlightening debate. Structuralism and functionalism are two of the first major schools. Based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related.
