Unit 5: Earliest Psychology Notes PDF
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These notes cover the history of psychology, from ancient Greece and Rome through to the evolution of structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, and behaviourism. Topics include the four humours, bloodletting, cupping, trephination, phrenology, and the first psychology laboratory.
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Unit 5: Earliest Psychology Plethoras ancient Greece & Rome Exercise, sweating, dieting, and vomiting Chakras Four Humors → sicknes...
Unit 5: Earliest Psychology Plethoras ancient Greece & Rome Exercise, sweating, dieting, and vomiting Chakras Four Humors → sickness caused by an imbalance of humors blood phlegm black bile yellow bile Bloodletting → humors were balanced out with a practice of bloodletting cupping lancet scarificator Trephination → process of drilling holes in the skull actind strange or depressed meant you might have evil spirits in your head Phrenology Dr. Franz Joseph Gall Popular untill the mid 19th century 27 individual organs caused a dent of bump in the head Waves of Psychology (Major Developments) Wave One: Introspection 1879 - Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig, Germany First Psych Labrotory https://knowt.com/note/b8c77c94-1d0b-4a06-8ad8-e857df96425d/Unit-5-Earliest-Psychology 12/13/24, 2 22 PM Page 1 of 3 : Structuralism trying to break psychology down into elements emotions experien ces feelings William James - first Psych Textbook Functionalism how you function within those structures more relevant cannot always control structuralism Wave Two: Gestalt Psychology Max Wertheimer response to structuralism and functionalism better appreachiated as a whole closure similarity figure ground proximity enclosure continuance Wave Three: Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Unconscious Mind Id,Ego, Superego studied through Projective Tests https://knowt.com/note/b8c77c94-1d0b-4a06-8ad8-e857df96425d/Unit-5-Earliest-Psychology 12/13/24, 2 22 PM Page 2 of 3 : Wave Four: Behaviorism John Watson Baby Albert experiment Ivan Pavlov Stimuli → Responses B.F. Skinner Skinner Boxes Wave Five: Multiple Perspectives History of Psychology Wilhelm Wundt (Voont) German “psychologist” “Father of psychology” Established FIRST psychology lab near Leipzig, Germany Structuralism first, trained subject in introspection sought to break the human experience down to sensations, views, feelings, emotions, etc. https://knowt.com/note/b8c77c94-1d0b-4a06-8ad8-e857df96425d/Unit-5-Earliest-Psychology 12/13/24, 2 22 PM Page 3 of 3 :
