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Psychology as a Science
HP 1000
Instructor: Qu Li, PhD
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Outline
A. What is psychology?
B. What are the goals of psychology?
C. How did psychology start and develop?
D. How do we conduct psychological
research?
E. What are we going to study for this
course?
A. What is psychology?
Psychology is the ________ of _________
and ______________.
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B. Four goals of psychology
1. ______________
2. ______________
3. ______________
4. ______________
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C. History
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Birth
1879 (137 years old)
•Wundt
oFirst laboratory: University of Leipzig, German
oPrinciples of Physiological Psychology
oObjective introspection
▪the subjective observation of one’s own experience
oThe duration of apperception
oHow long does it take for a ball to hit the desk?
oReaction time
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Early Development
•Titchener
–British
–Structuralism:
•Focus on structure or basic elements of the mind
•If the basic components of the mind could be
