Psychology: Introduction

Psychology

• Science of behavior and mental processes

Science

• Based on research

Behavior

• Observable

Goals of Psychology

• predict
• observe
• explain
• describe
• control

Mind & Body Are Connected                                      

• The Hebrews                                                   
• Aristotle
• Augustine

 Mind & Body Are Distinct

• Socrates (teacher of Plato)
• Plato (teacher of Aristotle)
• Descartes

Some Ideas Are Inborn

• Socrates
• Plato

The Mind is a Blank Slate

• Artistotle
• Locke

Wilhelm Wundt

• Father of Psychology

Structuralism (First School of Psychology)

• Broke down mental processes into the most basic components of conscious experience.

Introspection

• What did you see? Hear? Taste? Smell? Feel?

Functionalism (Second School of Psychology)

• Focuses less on how, but rather on why. Emphasized the process of how thoughts formed, changed, and how they adapted.