PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Margaret Floy Washburn, American Psychological Association, Mary Whiton Calkins

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Introduction to the history and science of psychology. Greek naturalist & philosopher aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality in 1879, the first psychological laboratory was found by wilhelm wundt. Seeking to measure atoms of the mind . Student, edward bradford titchener, introduced the school of structuralism and functionalism which explored the basic elements of the mind using the method of introspection proved to be unreliable. Under the influence of charles darwin, william james( philosopher-psychologist) assumed that thinking was developed because it was adaptive. As a functionalist he encouraged explorations of emotions, memories, willpower, habits and consciousness the first female president of the american psychological association (apa) was. Mary whiton calkins the first female to receive a ph. d. in psychology was margaret floy washburn, who was the second apa and the author of the animal mind. Psychology was defined at the science of mental life later redefined as the science of observable behaviours .