Psychology

Psychology

Introduction

The origin of philosophy of psychology has been discussed from many decades; in fact from the beginning of human life various questions have been raised. Philosophers like Plato, Aristole, and other Greek philosophers raised questions about the learning process and personality of human beings. Thus 17th century was called as pre-scientific. Psychology can be defined as social welfare responsibility directly or indirectly influences the conduct and behavior of individuals (Slovic, 2007). So it is interested in how people interact and understand each other. Psychology currently is considered as "the science that studies the mental processes of personality, from its external manifestation, i.e. the behavior." The analysis of this behavior is the starting point for the study of phenomena and processes characteristic of psychic activity. Psychology today gathers facts about the behavior and experience, systematically organizes and develops theories that better explain the behavior of humans and sometimes even predict their future actions. In this paper we are going to focus on various occurrence of psychology or contributions of various experimental to the field of psychology.

Questions# 1

Experimentalists

Experimentalists are a comprehensive expression used for all to all sort of scientist but usually psychologists. Experimentalists are usually engaged in experimental activity than focused on theoretical side of sciences. In other words we can say that a person running an experiment having an approach of discovering knowledge. An experimentalist is term used to refer a type of personality that builds up gradually to work. Well this phrase is not only limited to science but often is used in relation to artists which could include Robert Frost, Cezanne, or Mark twain. But here in this paper we are mainly talking about experimentalists related to psychology. In psychology experimentalists are sort of personalities that build up work mostly in artistic setting. Conceptualist is the opposite of an Experimentalist. Experimentalists were formed to gain knowledge about the science and they usually performed experiments to study behavior of individuals.

History states that women were excluded from experimentalists by Titchener because he didn't want women to be part of their discussion and most importantly he wanted to protect them from smoke. He believed that smoking was an essential part of meetings so, he wanted women to be stay away from smoke since he believed that they were too pure to be around smoke. Moreover he excluded women form experimentalists because he wanted to keep women away from open discussion about research, the reason was that he believed constructive and open discussions could not be possible having diverse population. On the other hand, women was supported by Titchener since he furthered women n accepted them and doctoral studies at Cornell whereas Culambia and Harvard denied them. Margaret Floy Washburn was the first women awarded with PhD by Corbnell along with the facilitation of Titchener. Titchener believed in social dimensions and this behavior difference could be explained by these dimensions. According to his experimentalists, while discussing smoked and research were social since he though smoking environment would be unfit for ...