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PS-210
History Of Psychology
PS-210
History Of Psychology
Psychology is not a new concept and traces back to ancient times, whereby various
scholars, including philosophers and physiologists, have made significant contributions to the
field. Plato is among the early Greek philosophers who significantly influenced psychology.
Plato offered significant insight into psychology, as evidenced in his idea of psyche describing
the mind and the soul (Cox, 2019). Plato held that the human psyche was the core of all
knowledge, and the human mind is endowed with all the knowledge it needed. Therefore, Plato
attributed learning to discovering and utilizing the innate knowledge through the process of
anamnesis. Plato argued that knowledge is innate and resides within human minds (Cox, 2019).
Humans do not acquire knowledge but are born with the knowledge of the world around them,
and it takes the discovery and utilization of innate knowledge. Plato wrote ‘The Republic' as he
further developed the idea of the psyche and came up with the notion of Tripartite Mind asserting
that the mind comprises three interdepended parts (Cox, 2019). Plato argued that there had to be
a balance between the three parts of the mind and an overreliance on either of the parts expressed
one's personality. Plato developed three personality types of intellect, will, and appetite that
significantly contributed to human psychology.
The physiologist Wilhelm Wundt is regarded as the father of modern psychology for he
established the Institute of Experimental Psychology in 1879 at the University of Leipzig (Cox,
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