PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Clinical psychology: concerned with diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. Evolutionary psychology: examines behavioural processes in terms of adaptive value for members of a species over course of many generations. Positive psychology: uses theory and research to understand the positive, adaptive, creative fulfilling aspects of human existence. Research areas in psychology: developmental, social, experimental, behavioural neuroscience/biological, cognitive, personality, psychometrics, educational, health. Definition of psychology: the term psychology comes from two greek words, psyche, meaning the soul, and logos, referring to the study of a subject. Philosophy and psychology: ancient greek philosophers such as socrates (469 399 b. c. e. ), plato (427 347 b. c. e. and aristotle (385 322 b. c. e. ) considered and debated issues of relevance to psychology, including such subjects as the separation of mind and body and whether knowledge is inborn (nativism) or gained through experience (empiricism) (hothersall, 1995). Structuralism vs functionalism: structuralism, emerged through the leadership of edward titchener.