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In 1894, Titchner’s student at Cornell University became famous for becoming the first woman to receive a Ph.D in psycho...
28/04/2022

In 1894, Titchner’s student at Cornell University became famous for becoming the first woman to receive a Ph.D in psychology. Her name was Margaret F. Washburn. In 1908, she published a book on animal behavior titled The Animal Mind.

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discov...
27/04/2022

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.

Psychology is a relatively new field in the realm of the sciences, only 125 years old.
29/03/2022

Psychology is a relatively new field in the realm of the sciences, only 125 years old.

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29/03/2022

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Aristotle, who lives from 384-322 BC., wrote about the relationship of the soul to the body (with the two being aspects ...
28/03/2022

Aristotle, who lives from 384-322 BC., wrote about the relationship of the soul to the body (with the two being aspects of the same underlying structure) in his De Anima

Ebbinghaus says, “ Psychology has a long past (going back to the Greeks) but only a short history (from 1860 or 1879 t...
28/03/2022

Ebbinghaus says, “ Psychology has a long past (going back to the Greeks) but only a short history (from 1860 or 1879 to present).

The behaviour which is of interest to psychologists has three aspects:AffectiveCognitiveConativeAffective aspect of beha...
28/03/2022

The behaviour which is of interest to psychologists has three aspects:

Affective
Cognitive
Conative

Affective aspect of behaviour includes motivation, attitudes, emotions, values, etc.

Cognitive aspect of behaviour is technically the focus of cognitive psychologists. It includes processes such as attention, sensation, perception, learning, thinking and imagination, memory and creativity. These cognitive processes are all being currently investigated using the method of experimentation.

Conative aspect, which includes the actions of the individual. All aspects are finally manifested in action. They can be inferred only through an observation of the actions and reactions of the individual to the environment. Actions are both psychological and physiological in nature. The study of the conative aspect of behavior is important to understand how an individual responds to the environment.

Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist whose fundamental studies of the sense of touch introduced a con...
28/03/2022

Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist whose fundamental studies of the sense of touch introduced a concept—that of the just-noticeable difference, the smallest difference perceivable between two similar stimuli—that is important to psychology and sensory physiology.

American Psychological Association (APA): The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and pro...
28/03/2022

American Psychological Association (APA): The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organisation of psychologists in the United States. The APA was founded in July 1892 at Clark University by a small group of around 30 men; by 1916 there were over 300 members.
The first president was G. Stanley Hall.

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28/03/2022

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One of Wundt's students, G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924), was influential in bringing psychology to the United States. He fo...
26/03/2022

One of Wundt's students, G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924), was influential in bringing psychology to the United States. He founded the first laboratory of psychology at John Hopkins in 1883, helped start the American Psychological Association in 1892, and then became its first president.

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