PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4, 46-48: Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Harvard astronomer owen gingerich: reported that there are more than 100 billion galaxies, yet there is nothing more awe inspiring and absorbing than our own inner space. Our brain, adds gingerich, is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos (p. 29): our consciousness our mind somehow arising from matter remains a profound mystery. Psychology is a science that seeks to answer such questions about us all how and why we think, feel, ad act as we do. Psychology"s first labortory: december 1879, two young men were helping an austere, middle-aged professor, wilhelm wundt in. Structuralism and functionalism: psychology used to be organized into different branches, or schools or thought. Its results varied from person to person and experience to experience: as introspection waned, so did structuralism. Smelling is what the nose does; thinking is what the brain does.