Intro To Psych

Question 1

Birth of Psychology

Answer 1

-philosophers started thinking about thinking
Socrates taught Plato - mind is separate from body continues after death; knowledge is pre-existing

Plato taught Aristotle- Aristotle used a lot of logic and careful observations to disagree w/

Socrates and Plato about mind- body relationship and how we gain knowledge through experience and observation. Tabula rasa

Rene Descartes agreed w/ Socrates and Plato about the separation btw mind and body (dualism)

Francis Bacon followed Aristotle to carefully experiment using common sense logic

Empiricism guides psychology
-observation 
- experiment in natural sciences
- knowledge originates in experience
•John Locke, bacon , Aristotle 

1879
Wilhelm Wundt, Germany; 1st experiment
Father of psychology

Question 2

Psychology

Answer 2

Study of the human mind, mental processes and behaviors

Question 3

Evolution of psychology

Answer 3

Structuralism: 
E B Titchener
VS 
functionalism:
William James

Structuralism, functionalism, humanistic, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, social cultural, biological ( neuroscience, evolutionary, behavior genetics) , eclecticism ( similar to biopsychosocial

Question 4

Structuralism

Answer 4

Study of elements of consciousness
1st school of psych
(Used introspection)
Unreliable

Question 5

Pseudo Psychology

Answer 5

• Telepathy
• Tarot reading
• Fortune telling
• Miss Cleo
• Graphology
• Palm Reading
• Phrenology ( science which studies the relationships between a persona character and the morphology of the skull)
• Horoscopes