PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Telegraph Key, Psychological Science, The Need
22 Sep 2018
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Psy 101 - lecture 1 - what is psychology? (chapter 1) William wundt, professor of germany"s university of leipzig, and the first psychology graduate students began the first psychological laboratory. and most straightforward mental procedures. Wundt was interested in measuring atoms of the mind , which is the quickest. The machine he created was to measure the time lag between an individual"s listening ability when a ball hits a platform and he/she pressing a telegraph key when it hits. Psychology branched off into two schools of thought: structuralism and functionalism. Structuralism : it uses introspection to reveal the construction of the human mind. Functionalism : inspect how behavioral and mental processes work together; how. The nose does the smelling and the brain does the thinking of the rose. Up into the 1920s, psychology was defined as the science of observable behavior . John b. watson and b. f. skinner later redefined psychology as the scientific study of.
