Psychology

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Psychology

• Where did it come from?

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Where did Psychology come from?

• What caused psychology to become a science?
• What are its historical roots?
• Does that tell us where it is going?

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Early Civilization

• Psychology has its origins in ancient
  civilization.
• As far back as Egyptian society skulls show these
  types of cut marks.

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Ancient Greece

• Socrates stated to his students know thyself
• Aristotle wrote the book Peri Psyche
• Hippocrates discussed the four humors.

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Middle Ages

• It was not unusual for people with mental
  disorders to die in treatment.
• They were often chained, naked, in wards. Beaten
  and abused.

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The year 1879

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Medical Doctor in Leipzig Germany
• Starts the first Psychological Laboratory
• Founder of Structuralism

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William James

• Psychology Professor at Harvard.
• Coins the phrase stream of consciousness
• Wrote the first Psychology Text Principles of
  Psychology

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Kenneth B. Clark

• Jumping ahead to 1947
• Clark adds a level of diversity to psychology.
• Landmark study on the negative effects of
  segregation

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Behaviorism

• John B. Watson
• Father of American Behaviorism
• Believed that if you are going to study human
  behavior you need to study humans.

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Gestalt Psychology

• Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Psychoanalytic

• Sigmund Freud
• Founder of the Psychoanalytic School of thought
• Medical Doctor

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Behaviorism

• B. F. Skinner
• Harvard University Professor
• Developed the concept of Operant Conditioning.
• Known for the Skinner Box.