PSYC 1010 Chapter : Psychology 1010 Notes with Robert Deutch.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Robert Deutsch

Document Summary

Aristotle theorized about: learning & memory, motivation & emotion, perception & personality. Structuralism- an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind (introduced by titchener) Introspection, looking inward at ones self, titchener trained them to report elements of their experience as they are under a experiment. Results of introspection not reliable, due to person to person and experience to experience: we don"t often know why we feel what we feel and do what we do. Functionalism- a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioural processes function how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. Thinking, like smelling, developed because it was adaptive it contributed to our ancestors survival (james, idea influenced by charles darwin) James encouraged exploration of emotions, memories, willpower, habits and moment-to- moment streams of consciousness. James: admitted mary calkins into his graduate seminar, tutored her.