Introduction to psychology

Question 1

early psychology

Answer 1

• founded from philosophy
• aristole, plato and descartes
• rene descartes - mediation on first philosophy
• dualism- the separation of the mind and the body
• today we are mostly marists and not dualists
• the brain in the vat- philosophical idea

Question 2

wilhelm wundt

Answer 2

• used introspection to break down consciousness into its component parts or structure. people trained to report conscious experience to stimuli
• first experimental lab in Leipzig Germany