Difference between revisions of "Introduction to Psychology 1/IPSY101/History/Overview"

By the end of this learning pathway you should be able to:

• Provide both the historical and modern scientific definitions of psychology
• Describe the merits of an education in psychology
• Describe how Wundt’s Structuralism and James’s Functionalism led to the birth of scientific psychology
• Describe major developments in the history of psychology including Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory, Gestalt Psychology, and Behaviourism
• Explain what view humanism rejected and what view it proposed instead
• Explain why the cognitive revolution shifted psychology’s focus back to the mind