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Psychology Ch 1
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Origins of psychology
4th & 5th Century
Began as philosophy
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Father of mdicine
interested in psychology
Descartes
(Nature View)
Human beings enter the world with an inborn store of knowledge and understanding of reality
"IT IS HOW WE ARE BORN"
John Locke
(Nurture View)
the human mind is a "Tubula Rosa"
(Blank state of mind in which experience "Writes" knowledge and understanding as a person matures)
Wilhelm Wundt
19th Century Father of psychology
E.B Titchner
(Structuralism)
Student of Wundt, thought psychology should be studied like chemistry.
Pysiology
the study of the function of the living organisms and its parts.
Phrenology
Different parts of the brain control different qualities or faculties.
Science
Observable
repeatable
Falsifiable
Makes predictions about future events
Pseudoscience
Outdated
Irrefutable
Anecdotal
inflexible
Appeals to mystery/myth
Handpicks facts
Vague claims
Research by exposition
Psychology
The scientific study of human behavior and ,ental processes.
Introspection
Observing and recording the nature of ones own perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
Structuralism
The analysis of mental structures (or the study of the elements of consciousness)
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Psychology Ch 1
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Psychology Ch 1
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2011-08-29T00:12:54Z
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