History and Systems of Psychology

History and Systems of Psychology

Jeannine Weary

Psy/310

August 28,2012

Pamela Gilmore

History and Systems of Psychology

People have always been a little curious about human behaviors. This is called psychology which is the study of the mental behavior process. The history of psychology is in infancy at the present time. Psychology can be traced back to a time when philosophers were the main thought in school. As theology drifted away science became a real study and so did psychology. There are several significant people that are responsible for the making of psychology. Many scientists have been credited for the development of science. Rene’ Descartes and John Locke opened the world to what we know as psychology today starting in the late 18 and early 19 centuries. The scientist wasn’t the only one that contributed the British empiricists help to. Some of the British empiricists included David Human and David Hartley. Hermann Ebbinghaus once said in 1908 “Phycology has a long pass yet his history is short”. There where philosophers that were historically related to the beginning of psychology as a form of discipline and there were also major philosophers in the western tradition.

Way before modern psychology three Greek Philosophers by the name of Scrates, Plato and Aristotile was the first to really question the nature of the mind and metal process during the 4th and 5th centuries. Hippocrates which was the father of medicine was interested in the study of the living organism and its parts. He observed how the brain controlled various part of the body. This gave the rise to the biological perspective of psychology but modern psychology didn’t begin until later. Modern psychology as a discipline formed during this period. After 1870 college students in the US was introduced to what they called new psychology. William James introduced theories of the mind as a professor of the University of Howard. James also went on to write the classic Principles of...