PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-12: American Psychological Association, Edward B. Titchener, Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Chapter one: psychology = 2 greek words ; psyche (soul) and logos (study of a subject) In 16th century psyche was the word used to refer to mind, soul, spirit. The intellectual climate itself favoured the scientific approach that wundt had promoted allowing for his proposals to be accepted in the academic community. In 1879, wundt established the first psychology research laboratory in the university of leipzig leading many to name this year as the birth year of psychology. Association and became its first president: apa was initially set up with hall and 26 others (27 in total?, two early canadian psychologist from the university of toronto; james mark baldwin and james. Lab titchener had his own version of psychology which he promoted (structuralism): structuralism was based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic element & investigate how these elements are related.
