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Introduction to Psychology

Prologue and Chapter 1 Outline

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Introduction to Psychology

Prologue and Chapter 1 Outline Psychololgy?s Roots Psychology ? Scientific study of behavior and mental processes Behavior- anything an organism does Mental ? Internal, subjective experiences Prescientific Psychology The First Psychologists Confucius ? Stressed the power of ideas Buddha ? sensations and perceptions combine into ideas Socrates/Plato ? Mind separate from body, knowledge is innate Aristotle- Used data for study, knowledge is gained Descartes- ideas and the mind are separate from the body Bacon ? a founder of modern science Locke- Helped form modern empiricism Empiricism- knowledge originates in experience Psychological Science is Born Wundt- experiments with time lag (reaction time of humans) Seeks to measure ?atoms of the mind? Minds structure vs. functions
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