PSY 1075 - HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on major trends in the history of American psychology and their 18th- and 19th-century social and intellectual roots. Topics include the physiological and philosophical origins of scientific psychology; the rise of dynamic psychology in Europe and the United States; Lunacy and American Asylum care; early experimental and quantitative psychology; the influence of William James and James Mark Baldwin; the structuralism/functionalism debate; animal learning and the origins of behaviorism; World War I and mental testing; neobehaviorism; the influence of gestalt psychology; and World War II and the cognitive revolution.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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