PSYC 2000 Chapter : HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Notes
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The study of behavior and mental processes. Focus on the control and modification of some undesirable behavior, to a desirable behavior. Wilhelm wundt: (1832-1920: german physiologist who is credited with opening the first psychology laboratory in 1879 in. Mary whiton calkins: studied at harvard, but denied phd because she was a female, first female president of the american psychological association (apa, focused on cognitive and psychology of self. Max wertheimer: objected to the structuralist point of view, believed that psychological events such as perceiving and sensing could not be broken down into any smaller elements and still be properly understood. **you can take a cellphone apart, but you will no longer have a cellphone. You will have a pile of electronic bits and pieces: gestalt psychology: focused on the perception and sensations of patterns of whole figures, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
