The Science of Psychology

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Table of Contents

The Science of Psychology

What is Psychology?

Steps in Explaining Behaviour

Roots of Psychology

History of Psychology

Classical Period

Philosophical Groundwork

René Descartes (1596-1650)

Cartesian Dualism

Of Mice and Men

Problem with Cartesian Dualism

Occasionalism

Double-aspect Theory

Psycophysical Parallelism

Immaterialism

Materialism

Materialism

Materialism Question

Is this robot alive?

How about this one?

John Locke (1632-1704)

Empiricism

Primary and Secondary Qualities

Nativism

Could Psychology be a Science?

Responses to Kant

Physiological Contribution

Sensory and Motor Nerves

Study of Vision and Touch

Nervous System as Mediator Between Mind and World

Nerve Impulses

Regions of the Brain

Regions of the Brain

First Psychology Laboratory, 1879

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Structuralism

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Functionalism

Psychodynamic Theory

Behaviourism

Gestalt Psychology

Humanistic Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience

Modern Fields of Psychology

Physiological psychology

Developmental psychology

Applied Psychology

Author: Richard E. Snyder

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