PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Revolution, Wilhelm Wundt

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

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Behaviorism- the view that psychology 1) should be an objective science that 2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists agree with 1) but not 2) Humanistic psychology- historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential. Cognitive neuroscience- the study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) Psychology- the science of behavior and mental processes. From the 1920s through the 1960s, the two major forces in psychology were behaviorism and freudian. It recaptured the fields early interest in mental processes and made them legitimate topic for scientific study. Jean piaget, most influential observer of children, he was a swiss biologist (cid:862)magella(cid:374)"s of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) morton hunt calls them. Plato (428-348 bce)- we inherit character and intelligence and that certain ideas are born. Aristotle (384-322 bce)- there is nothing in the mind that does not first come in form the external world through senses.