Prologue: The Story of Psychology Myers

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Prologue The Story of PsychologyMyers

• Eran Hanke
• Psychology Lecture
• Class 2

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• I am not now investigating the tracts of the
  heavens, or measuring the distance of the stars,
  or trying to discover how earth hangs in space. I
  am investigating myself, my memory, my mind.
  Augustine

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Story of Psychology

• I am not now investigating the tracts of the
  heavens, or measuring the distance of the stars,
  or trying to discover how earth hangs in space. I
  am investigating myself, my memory, my mind.
  Augustine
• Who are we? Why and how do we think, feel, act?
• Philosophy Biology
• The study of questions about knowledge and
  existence and ethics
• The study of living organisms

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• Socrates and Plato
• logic, philosophy
• mind and body separate
• knowledge within us

• Aristotle
• data
• mind and body connected
• knowledge from experiences
• stored in memory

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• Descartes
• research, physiology
• mind and body separate
• how do mind and body
• communicate?

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• Bacon
• experiment
• experience

• Locke
• blank slate
• mind acts on experience
• body and mind connected

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• Bacon
• experiment
• experience

• EMPIRICISM
• knowledge from experience via senses therefore
  study through observation and experimentation

• Locke
• blank slate
• mind acts on experience
• body and mind connected

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• Wundt
• father
• reaction time

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• Titchener
• elements of
• mind through
• INTROSPECTION

• STRUCTURALISM

• James
• what functions
• do thoughts,
• actions serve

• FUNCTIONALISM

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Psychology Defined

• Science of mental life
• Science of observational behavior
• SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL PROCESSES

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3 Big Issues

• Stability versus Change
• Rationality versus Irrationality
• Nature versus Nurture

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Psychologys Multiple Perspectives

• Neuroscience
• Evolutionary
• Behavior Genetics
• Psychodynamic
• Behavioral
• Cognitive
• Social-Cultural

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