History of psychology

HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

• Roots of psychology can be traced back 2000 years ago to early philosophers, brought and psychologist of ancient Greece

Hippocrates

• Greek psychologist that thought the mind or soul resided in the bran
• He believed that it was not composed of physical substance
• This is called mind-body-dualism-seeing mind and body as two different things that interact

Plato

• (350 B.C)- Greek philosopher tat believed that who we are what we know are innate (unborn)

Aristotle

• Plato's student. believed that whole are and what we know are acquired from experience.
• he also believed in manism0 seeing mind and bod as different aspects f the same thing

About 2000 years later, John Locke and Rene Descartes had a similar argument

• John Locke- Believed that knowledge comes from observation, ad what we know comes from experience
• he coined the term "tabula vasa"- blank slate.
• "the mind is like a black slate in which the environment writes upon."

Rene Descartes

• believed that what we know is innate
• "I think therefore I am"

Nature V. Nurture Controversy

• Nature- certain elementary ideals are innate to the human mind; not gained through experience.
• "men are born, not made"
• Nurture: Anything that we know, we have learned through experience
• "men are made not born"

Wilhelm Wundt- 1879 university of Leipzig

• psychology's first experiment, birth at a science.
• established first psychology lab
• introspection looking inwards

Structuralism

• Wundt, titcher, hall
• uses introspection to explore the structural  elements of the mind  
• break down mental processes into most basic parts

Functionalisms

• reaction to structuralism
• how do they enable us to adapt to survive, and flourish