Psyc Ch. 1
Subject:
Psychology [1]
Tags:
behavior [2]
Biology [3]
Mind [4]
Human behavior [6]
Selection [7]
Ethology [9]
Monogamy [10]
Psychology [11]
Structuralism [12]
Infidelity [13]
Human development [14]
Attachment theory [15]
Love [17]
Psychoanalysis [18]
Personal life [19]
Technology [21]
The Evolution of Psychology Psychology is an ancient art ?psyche? = soul ?logos? = study of a subject And a less ancient scientific discipline early 18th century - ?study of the mind? Multi-disciplinary approaches: Room for chemists, biologists, physiologists, sociologists, anthropologists, evolutionary everythingists, etc. Intellectual parents - philosophy and physiology And Wilheim Wundt, the godfather United all the different questions under one common mystery umbrella 1870 - first lab founded in University of Leipzig The Early Growth Phase Thanks to Wundt, started off on a good science foot. Scientific study of conscious experience: Attention Sensation and perception Reaction time etc.