Unit 1

Today’s
Agenda!

Overview:

-Names

-Google Classroom resources
-Milgram Experiment

-Unit one Powerpoint?

Objectives:

-I can start to investigate
applications of psychology
in the real world.

-I can recognize
philosophical and
physiological perspectives
shaped the development of
early psychology.

Reminders:

-Signed Syllabus

-Getting to know you
form

Psychology’s Roots

-Questions from throughout human history

-Relation between mind and body

-Built in knowledge versus experience

-Socrates and Plato

-Separate, knowledge innate

-Aristotle

-Data and observations

-John Locke

-“Blank slate”

Psychological Science

Empiricism- The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science
should rely on observation and experimentation

Wilhelm Wundt- German, established the first psychology laboratory and first
psychological experiment

-New wing of science

-Organized into different branches or schools of thought