General Psychology

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%
What is Psychology?
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
HOW DO PSYCHOLOGISTS
STUDY THE MIND?
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
BRIEF HISTORY OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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
EARLY SYSTEMS OF
PSYCHOLOGY
PERSPECTIVES
EARLY DEVELOPMENT
EARLY MODERN ERA
MODERN ERA