PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychological Association, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener
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From speculation to science : how psychology developed: psyche = soul, logos = study of subject, leaded to the study of the mind. Natural selection heritable characteristics that provide a survival / reproductive advantage = more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed onto subsequent generations, come to be selected over time. Watson alters psychology"s course as behaviour makes its debut. Detectable input from environment: behaviour approach often called stimulus-response (s-r) psychology, pavlov, russian psychologist did experiment on dogs, moved over to animal subjects, gestalt school of thought opposed watson, sigmund freud looking into mysteries of unconscious mental processes. : tries to explain personality, motivation, mental disorders by. 1920 psychoanalytic theory known around the world. Psychology in canada: first experimental lab in british empire = at uoft by james mark baldwin, first academic psychology department @ mcgill university 1924, @uoft .
