Kristel Rose B.

Magluyan
Course Title: General Psychology
Course Code: Psych
Course Credit: 3 units
Pre-requisite: None
No. of Hours: 54 (3 hours per week)
Course Requirements
Quizzes
Recitation
Assignment
Seatwork
Formal Exam
Grading System
Class Standing: 60%
Quizzes
Recitation
Assignment
Reports/Projects
Reaction Papers/Case Studies
Major Exams: 40%
Total: 100%
PSYCHE AND LOGOS
Psyche Soul
Logos - Study
Lets define Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of people, the mind and
behavior. It is both a thriving academic discipline and a
vital professional practice. (The British Psychological
Society)

The scientific study of the behavior of individuals and
their mental processes. (American Psychological
Association)

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCERN IS UNDERSTANDING THE
MIND AND THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR

THROUGH BEHAVIOR
BEHAVIOR IS THE RAW DATA OF PSYCHOLOGY
MIND and BEHAVIOR
Mind
Private inner experiences of perception, thoughts,
memories and feelings
Behavior
Observable actions of human being
Psychologys Ancestor: The Great
Philosophers
Aristotle is the father of Psychology
A usual psychological question pondered by the ancient
philosophers
are cognitive abilities and knowledge inborn, or are they
acquired only through experience?
Plato favored in the side of nativism
Aristotle believed in tabula rasa
From the Brain to the Mind: The
French Connection
Rene Descarte, a French philosopher, argued that body and
mind are fundamentally different things.
Thomas Hobbes argued that the mind and body arent
different things at all; rather, the mind is what the brain does.
Franz Joseph Gall, a French physicial, also thought that brains
and minds were linked, but by size rather than by glands.
He also developed a psychological theory known as phrenology
Broca is the first to demonstrate that the mind is grounded in
a material substance; namely, the brain.
From Physiology to Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt, the father of Experimental Psychology,
established the first experimental psychology
laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
Structuralism - the analysis of the basic elements that
constitute the mind
Edward Titchener brought structuralism to the US