Welcome! Introduction to Psychology Psych 107-201

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Welcome!Introduction to Psychology Psych 107-201
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Todays Outline

• Introduction to course
• Why study psychology?
• Psychology
• Scientific Method Critical Thinking
• Identify goals for course
• Review syllabus

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What is Psychology?

• The scientific study of mind (psyche) processes
  and behavior

Psychology
Themes of psychology
Methods of psychology
Philosophy Humanities
Natural Sciences
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The Start of Psychology

• Early philosophers
• Socrates Plato
• Descartes
• Locke
• Wilhelm Wundt 1st experimentalist
• Introspective work James, Freud
• 1920s borrowed methods from other sciences