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Chapter 1 - History of PsychologyPsych degree possibilities
- therapy (licensure requirements)
- *teaching
- legal professions
- marketing and advertising
- military and security
- human resources
- industrial organization
- *research (science, applications, proprietary)
- small group psychology
- sports
- diplomacy, public relations
- product development and design
- *criminal
- creative arts, performing
- *writing
- political leadership
- news media
- developing medication
Ebbinghaus → Psych has a long history but short past
→ People have always been doing psych informally but as a field it’s new
→ Plato - The Ring of Gyges - nature of humans when not observed or
held accountable
→ Locke - child as a tabula rasa - we are born as a blank canvas
→ Rene Descartes - mind-body problem - what is the relationship
between the mind and the body? how are they connected?
dualism x monism (mind and body or mind is body)
even today, we don’t have the answer for this
1879: official birth of psych
Wilhelm Wundt creates first formal lab of psych research as a science
Different approaches to psychology
● structuralism
○ break down experiences into basic processes, like parts of a
machine
○ resulted from industrial revolution, coined by Edward Titchener
○ practices were subjective (experience of slippery fingers)
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