Once upon a time on a planet in this neighborhood of the universe, Lear came to be people. Soon thereafter, these creatures become intensely interested in themselves and in one another, who are we? What produces our thoughts, our feelings, and actions? And how are we to understand and manage those around us? to be human is to be curious about ourselves and the world around us. Before 300 BCE, the Greek naturalist and philosopher Aristotle theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality.

Today we choco it's some of his gases like his suggestion, this meal makes us sleepy by causing gas and heat to collect around the source of our personality, the heart, but credit Aristotle with asking the right questions, philosophers thinking about thinking continued until the birth of psychology as we know it on December the 1979 in a small town For a room at the Germany University of plastic, there are two young men were helping and asked for a middle each professor will have one creating an experimental apparatus. Their machine measure through the time lag between people's hearing a ball hits a platform and they're pressing a telegraph key. Curiously, people responded in about one 10th of a second when asked to press the key as soon as the sound of cured and in about two tenths of a second when asked to press the key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving the sound.

This is because to be aware of once awareness takes a little longer, was thinking to measure atoms of the mind the fastest and simplest mental processes. So began the first psychological laboratory step by wound and by psychologies first, graduate students. Before long, these new science of psychology became organized into different branches or school of thoughts, each promoted by pioneering To early schools were structuralism and functionalism. As physicists and Camus discerned the structure of mother so one student at Fort Bragg for a teacher in discovery demise structure. He engaged people in self reflective introspection, which is looking inward training them report elements of their experience as they look at the rose. Listen to a metronome smell the scent or tasted a step suppose, what were their immediate sensations, their images and feelings and how did this relate to one another?

Alice introspection proved somewhat unreliable, it requires smart wearable people and its results were read from person to person and experienced experience as introspection when it so did structuralism hoping to assemble the mind structure from simple elements was rather like trying to understand a car by examining he disconnected philosophers psychologists, William James thought it would be more fruitful to consider the evolved functions of our, of our thoughts and feelings or we can say smelling ease within those that thinking is what the brain does. But why do nose and brain do these things? under the influence of evolutionary theories? Charles Darwin, genes assume that thinking like smelling develop because it was adaptive, it contributed to our ancestors survival. Consciousness serves a function, it enables us to consider our past adjust our present and planning our future is a functionalist, James encouraged explorations of down to earth emotions, memories, willpower habits and moment to moment, streams of consciousness.

James legacy stems partly from his Harvard mentoring, and he's writing in 8090 over the objections of Harvard presidents he admitted married Calkins into his graduate seminar. We have to mention here that in those years woman lacked even the rush to vote. And when caucus joined the other students all men out, so James puckered her alone. Later as she finished all of her work speed requirements, our scoring all the male students on the qualifying exams. Alice harbor denied her the degree she had earned, offering her instead a degree from Radcliffe college. his undergraduate sister school for women cook is resisted the unequal treatment and refused the decree she nevertheless went on to become a distinguished memory researcher in the American Psychological Association, first female president in 95.

The honor of being the first female psychology PhD later falco, Margaret flow Washburn, who also wrote an influential book, the animal mind code, and become the second female AP president in 1921. This was brief, historic view have important milestones in psychologies early development. Let's now jump on next lesson in order to see what is psychologies biggest question?