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Do Now Why would it be important to understand the history of psychology?

Note Color Code Notes are not required by highly encouraged Yellow = Notes Blue = Vocabulary Applications Green = Class Questions This color code is also on the wall.

Unit 1: History of Psychology and Approaches What is Psychology?

Psychology’s Roots Ancient Greeks Socrates & Plate Aristotle concluded that the mind can be separated from the body and continues after the body dies knowledge is born within us Think of Professor X at the end of X-men 3 Aristotle believed knowledge grows from our experiences and is stored in our memories

Psychology’s Roots …Continued Rene Descartes Mind & body separate Connection between nerve pathways and reflexes Animal spirits Francis Bacon approach of experiment, experience, and common-sense John Locke Tabula Rasa (blank slate) when we are born our mind is a blank slate and our experiences write on this slate Empiricism Bacon & Locker ideas = modern empiricism

Psych Roots – First Experiment Wilhelm Wundt (1879) University of Leipzig Reaction time experiment

Psych Roots – Structure of the Mind Edward Titchener had people report what was going on in their minds as they experienced things Structuralism Introspection Looking inward proved unreliable because people experience things differently and vary Only smart people could participate

Psych Roots – Minds Function Functionalism William James How did the mind function? Darwin perspective meaning that our ability to smell through our nose was something that we adapted to in order to survive. He was considered a functionalist Mary Calkins first female student (James’ student) and was denied her PhD from Harvard because of her gender First woman to be president of the American Psychological Association Mary Floyd Washburn first female to receive a PhD is psychology Experimental Psychology Study behavior and thinking using scientific method EX: Why did the girl hit the guy? Observe, hypothesis, experiment, data, theory

Psychological Science Develops Recap Wundt and Titchener = inner sensations and images James = introspection, looking at consciousness and feelings Freud= how childhood experiences effect our lives Thus until 1920 psychology was defined as the science of mental life

Psychological Science Develops…Continued 1920s-1960s psychology was redefined as the scientific study of observable behavior Behaviorism B.F. Skinner Skinner box operant conditioning John B. Watson Little Albert Classical conditioning

Psychological Science Develops… Continues In the 1960s and beyond humanist psychology rebelled against Freudian psych and behaviorism Humanistic Psychology Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow focused on the importance of current environmental influences on our growth Cognitive Neuroscience how we perceive, process, and remember info Aka Cognitive psych

Psychology Today Todays definition of psychology Psychology Science in this book will be the way one asks and answers questions Behavior anything an organism does Mental process the internal experiences we infer from behavior

Today Questions? Quiz on #1-3 Begin HW HW = #4-7 (Contemporary Psych) Grade, review, clarify Begin HW HW = #4-7 (Contemporary Psych)