文档介绍:Introduction What is Psychology Where it came from What Psychologists do What Is Psychology??The science of behaviour and mental processes?Psychology is a scienceFigure What Psychologists DoPsychologists at UNBC ?Psychologists, Researchers, Instructors, Community Members ?Clinical Psychologists: Registered or ‘Licensed to practice”. Dr.’s, Cindy Hardy, Ken Prkachin and Henry Harder.?Research Interests -Development ? - Health, Social, Environment ? - Cognition Neuroscience Where Psychology came The belief that all animals and all moving objects possess spirits providing motive force. Philosophy?Animism ?Greek Philosophy?René Descartes (1596-1650)?Mind/Body Dualism?Empiricism?Rationalism?MaterialismThe philosophical belief that reality consists of mind and matter. DualismThe Early Traditions?Structuralism was the study of the structure of immediate experience.?The first psychological laboratory was created by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879?Edward B. Titchner popularized Wundt’swork in the English-speaking world