PS101 Chapter 1-2: Detailed Notes
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A campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild philosophy or psychology. In 1879, wundt succeeded in establishing the first formal laboratory for research at the. 1879 is considered psychology"s date of birth . First journal devoted to publishing research on psychology. Declared the new psychology should be modelled after fields such as physics and chemistry. Primary focus was consciousness the awareness of immediate psychology which is why psychology became the study of conscious experience. Structuralism was based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyse consciousnesses into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Identify and examine the fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, vision, hearing, and touch. Introspection - the careful, systematic self-observation of one"s own conscious experience. Makes the subject/person being studied more objective and more aware. Based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure.
