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Psychology The science of behavior and mental processes.

Psychology as Science Empirical Findings are based on experimentation, observation and measurement

Psychology’s Roots Pre-scientific Psychology Many of the first psychologists were philosophers and religious leaders. Aristotle Hippocrates

Psychology’s Roots Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig (1879)

Psychology’s Roots Edward Titchner (Late 1800s) Structuralism: used introspection (looking in) to explore the human mind

Psychology’s Roots William James (Around 1900) Functionalism focused on how behavioral processes function and enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish Principles of Psychology text

Psychology’s Roots Mary Whiton Calkins Ivan Pavlov Sigmund Freud John B. Watson (1913) B.F. Skinner (1938) Etc., etc.

Psychology’s Goals Describe Explain Predict Change What has occurred? Why did it occur? Predict What will cause it to occur again? Change How do we make something different occur?

Contemporary Psychology

Biopsychosocial Approach