PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean Piaget, Neuroethics, Job Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

Psychology seeks to describe, explain and predict the occurrence of such behaviour. Psychologists can often offer possible explanations for this behaviour and suggestions about what to do about it, in order to cope with it and prevent occurrence in the future. As psychology has evolved, its focus, methods and explanatory models have changed. Psychology comes from 2 greek words, psyche: means the soul, logos: study of a subject (to define a topic of study) Early 18th century, psychology gained literal meaning, the study of the mind . A new science is born: the contributions of wundt and hall. Psychology"s intellectual parents were philosophy and physiology. Founder: wilhelm wundt (1832-1920), german philosopher set up first formal research lab in 1879 (in. Psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience. 1883-1893, 24 new psychological research laboratories sprang up in us/canada (many by wundt"s students or students" student) G. stanley hall (1846-1924), established america"s first research laboratory in psychology at johns.