Prologue
1. Psychology 's roots
-Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental process
--Psychology is open to any sort of theories, but first has to have data that will backup the predictions
--Behavior: anything an organism does- any action we can observe and record
---Examples of observable behaviors
----yelling
----smiling
----sweating
----talking
----questionnaire making
--Mental processes: the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
---Examples of mental processes
----sensations
----perceptions
----dreams
----thoughts
----beliefs
----feelings
2. Prescientific Psychology
-Even back in the day, people around the world was eager to understand how the mind and body works
--In India: Buddha thought about how sensations and perceptions work together as ideas --In China: "Confucius stressed the power of idea and an educated mind" --In Ancient Israel: a Hebrew scholar connected mind and emotion of the body; "people were said to think with their hearts and feel with their bowels" -In Ancient Greece: --Through logic, Socrates; philosophy teacher (469-399 B.C.) and Plato; Socrates ' student (428-348 B.C.) -- concluded mind and body are separable even in the after death. ---Knowledge is inherited --Through well thought-out observations, Aristotle; Plato 's student thought otherwise. --- Mind and body aren 't separable ---With experiences come knowledge -During the 1600s Modern Science began to play in Psychology -- Rene Descartes (1595-1650); a Frenchman, a scientist, and a philosopher ---agreed with Socrates and Plato 's principles ---questioned how mind and body communicate; therefore He dissected animals and "concluded": ----The fluid in the brain is filled with animal spirits->nerves->muscle->movement -----Basically, nerve paths are important and they "enable" reflexes --Francis Bacon (1561-1626); ---One of the founder of today 's psychology ---Has a big impact on the experiment of modern science ---He also was eager to learn whats going with the mind --John Locke (1632-1704); a British political philosopher ---Wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ----The essay supports Bacon 's ideas of empiricism -----experiences write our knowledge; basically originally, our mind is a blank white paper. …show more content…
-----Locke also beLieves science has the same pattern; make observation first then experimentation
3A. Psychological is Born
-Psychology was first founded on December 1879 at by Wilhelm Wundt with the help of two of his students.
--The laboratory was located in University of Leipzig in Germany
--The experiment was to learn about ""atoms of the mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process"
---Measured how long it takes to recognized the sound when a ball hits the ground ---Measured how long it takes to press a a telegraph key ----For a first timer it took a person 1/10th of a second, the next time he or she did it, it took 2/10th of a second. -Not too long after the new science of psychology was found, it divided up into two categories: --structuralism --functionalism -Later on, the new science of psychology became more specifics. It categorized it into --structuralism --functionalism --Gestalt psychology --Behaviorism --Psychoanalysis B. Thinking About the Mind 's Structure -Edward Bradford Titchener --A factuality of Cornell University --Introduced structuralism --Wanted to find out about "the elements of mind" ---How? By urging people to introspect themselves when doing certain things, such as: ----What image comes to mind? ----"What were their immediate sensations?" ----What
1. Psychology 's roots
-Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental process
--Psychology is open to any sort of theories, but first has to have data that will backup the predictions
--Behavior: anything an organism does- any action we can observe and record
---Examples of observable behaviors
----yelling
----smiling
----sweating
----talking
----questionnaire making
--Mental processes: the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
---Examples of mental processes
----sensations
----perceptions
----dreams
----thoughts
----beliefs
----feelings
2. Prescientific Psychology
-Even back in the day, people around the world was eager to understand how the mind and body works
--In India: Buddha thought about how sensations and perceptions work together as ideas --In China: "Confucius stressed the power of idea and an educated mind" --In Ancient Israel: a Hebrew scholar connected mind and emotion of the body; "people were said to think with their hearts and feel with their bowels" -In Ancient Greece: --Through logic, Socrates; philosophy teacher (469-399 B.C.) and Plato; Socrates ' student (428-348 B.C.) -- concluded mind and body are separable even in the after death. ---Knowledge is inherited --Through well thought-out observations, Aristotle; Plato 's student thought otherwise. --- Mind and body aren 't separable ---With experiences come knowledge -During the 1600s Modern Science began to play in Psychology -- Rene Descartes (1595-1650); a Frenchman, a scientist, and a philosopher ---agreed with Socrates and Plato 's principles ---questioned how mind and body communicate; therefore He dissected animals and "concluded": ----The fluid in the brain is filled with animal spirits->nerves->muscle->movement -----Basically, nerve paths are important and they "enable" reflexes --Francis Bacon (1561-1626); ---One of the founder of today 's psychology ---Has a big impact on the experiment of modern science ---He also was eager to learn whats going with the mind --John Locke (1632-1704); a British political philosopher ---Wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ----The essay supports Bacon 's ideas of empiricism -----experiences write our knowledge; basically originally, our mind is a blank white paper. …show more content…
-----Locke also beLieves science has the same pattern; make observation first then experimentation
3A. Psychological is Born
-Psychology was first founded on December 1879 at by Wilhelm Wundt with the help of two of his students.
--The laboratory was located in University of Leipzig in Germany
--The experiment was to learn about ""atoms of the mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process"
---Measured how long it takes to recognized the sound when a ball hits the ground ---Measured how long it takes to press a a telegraph key ----For a first timer it took a person 1/10th of a second, the next time he or she did it, it took 2/10th of a second. -Not too long after the new science of psychology was found, it divided up into two categories: --structuralism --functionalism -Later on, the new science of psychology became more specifics. It categorized it into --structuralism --functionalism --Gestalt psychology --Behaviorism --Psychoanalysis B. Thinking About the Mind 's Structure -Edward Bradford Titchener --A factuality of Cornell University --Introduced structuralism --Wanted to find out about "the elements of mind" ---How? By urging people to introspect themselves when doing certain things, such as: ----What image comes to mind? ----"What were their immediate sensations?" ----What