PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Abraham Maslow
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Developed from philosophical speculations about the mind into a modern science. Psychology (16th century) =psyche soul , and logos study of a subject . Psychology as old as the human race, but just over 100 years ago emerged as a scientific discipline. (by the 1870s) psych"s intellectual parents were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology. Wilhelm wundt ( founder of psychology ): mounted a campaign to make psych an independent discipline and in 1879 succeeded in establishing first formal laboratory for research in germany. Psych"s primary focus was consciousness- the awareness of immediate experience thus psych became the scientific study of conscious experience (mind and mental process, scientifically) G. stanley hall- important contributor to rapid growth of psych in america. Two major schools of thought: structuralim and functionalism. Structuralism (edward titchener): based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related.
