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A Brief History of Psychology - Homework

The document summarizes the history of psychology. It discusses how early Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle explored topics related to psychology. René Descartes later theorized mind-body dualism, while Thomas Hobbes and John Locke argued sensations are physical processes in the brain. Psychology emerged as a science in 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated to psychological research at the University of Leipzig in Germany, making him considered the "father of psychology".

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The document summarizes the history of psychology. It discusses how early Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle explored topics related to psychology. René Descartes later theorized mind-body dualism, while Thomas Hobbes and John Locke argued sensations are physical processes in the brain. Psychology emerged as a science in 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated to psychological research at the University of Leipzig in Germany, making him considered the "father of psychology".

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A Brief History of Psychology

Answer the questions


1. What does the history of psychology study?
Study the mind and behavior dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
2. How did psychology begin?
Psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879, when German
scientist Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological
research
3. What was the subject the ancient thinkers speculated on?
They speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, and brain.
4. What are the roots of psychology?

 Early Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle explored topics such as
pleasure, pain, knowledge, motivation, rationality, and mental illness—topics often
discussed in psychology today.
 In the 17th century, French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes theorized
that the body and mind are separate entities. This concept came to be known as dualism.
 English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke disagreed with the concept of
dualism, arguing instead that sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings are physical
processes that occur within the brain.
 Psychology became a self-conscious field of experimental study in 1879, when German
scientist Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to
psychological research.
 Edward B. Titchener expanded upon Wundt's ideas to find the theory of structuralism,
which attempted to understand the mind as the sum of varying underlying parts.
 Functionalism, founded by William James in the late 19th century, offered an alternative
to structuralism by focusing largely on the functions of the mind.

5. Who espoused the ideas of mind-body dualism?

René Descartes

6. When did psychology emerge as a science?

1879

7. Who is considered to be the ―father‖ of psychology? Why?

Wilhelm Wundt. Because he opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the


University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. This was the first laboratory dedicated to
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psychology, and its opening is usually thought of as the beginning of modern psychology.
Indeed, Wundt is often regarded as the father of psychology.

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