1. AP Psychology Quiz History of Psychology

2. The “First” Psychological Experiment Psamtik I of Ancient Egypt Conquered the Assyrians, revived art and architecture and made time for the world’s first notated psychological experiment Consider the stages of economic development -  If humans have been in existence for around 800,000 years, why is it only recently that we have started to really delve into the human mind and body?

3. Hypothesis and Experiment – Egyptian Style Step 1: Commandeer two infant children from a lower class servant Step 2: Have someone raise them, in isolation, and keep them from hearing any sounds made from humans (or language of any kind) Step 3: Wait two years, rinse/repeat, and wait for them to speak Step 4: make up a story to make you seem awesome even though it’s completely implausible and modern science will prove it incorrect.

4. Messages From Above: Who is in control? “Achilles called the men to gather together, this having been put into his mind by the goddess of the white arms, Hera, who had pity on the Greeks when she saw them dying… and he said to them, “I believe that backwards we must make our way home if we are to escape death through fighting and plaguing.” the Iliad

5. Ancient Hebrews as well… “After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy sheild, and thy exceeding great reward.” Genesis, 15:1

6. Saul’s psychotic fits… in religious text “But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him… And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. I Samuel, 16:14-23

7. The East also gets involved… 6 th century BC  India – Buddha attributes human thoughts to our sensations and perceptions  China – Confucius stresses the power of thought and decision that lay within each person “A man can command his principles; principles do not master the man”

8. The strongest shift occurs in Greece… Solon: poet and lawgiver – sidebar… why aren’t more lawgivers writing poetry these days? When are the great works of John Boehner going to be released?  Scribed one of the most famous pieces of advice in Western Civilization at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi KNOW THYSELF

9. Enter the Greeks: Socrates – the “original” Plato – the idealist Aristotle – the realist

10. Socrates (469-399) Not much is known – what is known comes via his student, Plato Socratic Method Knowledge is in recollection – we learn not from experience, but from reasoning, which leads us to discover knowledge that is within us.

11. Plato (427-348) The Idealist Assumption that character and intelligence are largely inherited and that certain ideas are inborn (bias?) Rejects sense impressions  We use our hands to touch and feel the difference between hard and soft, but it is our minds (innate) that make the judgment, not our senses Metaphysical in approach

12. Aristotle (384-322) Plato’s most distinguished pupil Contradicted Plato almost entirely  Had intense interest in concrete facts Had a love for empirical data and observation – inductive reasoning Saw sense perception as the a raw essential for knowledge “The facts have not yet been sufficiently established. If ever they are, then credit must be given to observation rather than to theories, and to theories only insofar as they are confirmed by the observed facts.”

13. Skipping Ahead… Why/when does this resurgence of Ancient Greek thought/philosophy occur in Europe? John Locke – rejects notion of inborn ideas (tabula rasa – blank slate) Rene Descartes – rejects Locke believing that some ideas are innate

14. Charles Darwin The Origin of Species  Diversity of life thru proposed evolutionary processes Natural Selection  Principle that among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

15. When Did Psychological Science Begin? 1879 – University of Leipzig, Germany Wilhelm Wundt – created the first university lab for study in psychology  Students will flock from all over the world to study under him

16. Edward Titchener Student of Wundt Introduced structuralism  Early school of thought that used introspection to explore structural elements of human minds

17. Issues with STRUCTURALISM Requires smart verbal people (bias?) Unreliable because results, like experiences, vary from person to person  No way to standardize it People’s recollections of actual events frequently err  Boston Massacre

18. William James Consider the functions of our feelings and thoughts Functionalism: how our mental and behavioral processes function, how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish  Explore emotions, memories, willpower, etc Heavily influenced by Charles Darwin (adaptive nature of functionalism) Responsible for introducing psychology to the educated public (bias?)

19. Fun fact - William James is responsible for nearly inventing the final exam Grumble grumble grumble

20. Mary Whiton Calkins Interesting sociological story Early female psychology pioneer  Refused PhD First APA female president - 1905

21. Margaret Floy Washburn First PhD in psychology held by a woman Second female to become APA president

22. Beverly Inez Prosser First African American woman PhD

23. How Psychological Science has Developed Early Days – Wundt, Titchener, James  Introspection, inner sensations, feelings and emotions based Transition to Freud  Emotional responses to childhood experiences and how our unconscious thought processes affect behavior  1920’s psych = mental life

24. 1920-1960’s Shift from mental to behavior focused Record rates of how people’s behavior changes as they respond to different situations Watson, Skinner

25. Humanistic Psychology Around the same time – humanistic psych will rebel against Freudian psychology and behaviorism Humanistic psychology: emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people and the individual’s potential for personal growth  Rogers, Maslow

26. 1960’s – The Cognitive Revolution Cognitive Neuroscience – study of brain activity linked with mental activity  Perception, thinking, memory, language Hugely important to treatment and understanding new ways to treat things like depression, OCD, etc

27. What is Psychology? There are fads, shifts, and transitions with no clear defined sense of science as it is ever changing Loosely – psychology can be defined as: the science of behavior AND mental processes