PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-42: Wilhelm Wundt, Humanistic Psychology, Sq3R
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Module 1 behaviourism: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behaviour without reference to mental processes. 6, 85) psychology: the science of behaviour and mental processes. (p. 6) nature nurture issue: the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours. Also sometimes referred to as a retrieval practice effect or test-enhanced learning. (pp. Sq3r: a study method incorporating ve steps: survey, question, read, retrieve, Wilhelm wundt established the rst psychological laboratory in 1879 in germany. Early researchers de ned psychology as a science of mental life. in the 1920s, under the in uence of john b. watson and the behaviourists, the eld"s focus changed to the. Scienti c study of observable behaviour. in the 1960s, the humanistic psychologists and the cognitive psychologists revived interest in the study of mental processes. Psychology is now de ned as the science of behaviour and mental processes.