PSYC 1100 1nd Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I Brain Fundamentals a Grammatical Rules b Real vs Made up Words c Vision Outline of Current Lecture I Four Definitions of Psychology II Significant Dates a Wilhelm Wundt b John Watson c Ulric Neisser Current Lecture I Four Definitions of Psychology The science of mind and behavior The science of knowing and experiencing The science of experimental epistemology The science of things that move around on their own II Significant Dates 1879 Wilhelm Wundt in Germany funds the first laboratory dedicated to psychology separating psychology from philosophy for first time 1913 John Watson declares that to be a science psychology must only study the observable and thus must be a science of behavior rather than of mind this inaugurates roughly six decades of dominance of American psychology by Behaviorism These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 1967 Ulric Neisser publishes his textbook outlining areas of study that had begun yielding to investigation in the decade previous and presenting a conscious view of new field that solidified its popularity and led to its rapid ascendance
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