Introduction to the History of Psychology
I. What is psychology?
a. What is “behavior”?
b. What are “mental processes”?
II. What do psychologists do?
a. teaching
b. research
c. practice
III. Major perspectives in psychology
a. neuroscience
b. evolutionary
c. behavior genetics
d. psychodynamic
e. behavioral
f. cognitive
g. socio-cultural
IV. Important individuals to the development of psychology
a. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
b. René Descartes
c. Francis Bacon
d. John Locke
e. Wilhelm Wundt
f. Edward Titchener
g. William James
h. Mary Whiton Calkins & Margaret Floy Washburn