PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ob River, Solomon Asch, John B. Watson
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Psychology: the evolution of a science: william james (1842 1910) father of psychology, brought it to the western, psychology scientific study of the mind and behavior. world, from greek psyche soul, logos to study, the principles of psychology james" significant contribution to psych, mind private inner experiences, ever flowing stream of consciousness, perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings, behaviour observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals, interaction between others or things done by ourselves. All knowledge is acquired through experience: modern psychologists do not completely believe that either nativism or empiricism is correct, both of these approaches to the debate by philosophers and no way of testing or experimentation to determine the correct answer, the ability to test and experiment in modern psychology is what makes it a science, and is the reason why it was not heavily studied until the late.
