M1: Psychology and Its History

Learning Targets

1-1 Explain how psychology is a science and why the “rat is always right.”

1-2 Describe the three key elements of the scientific attitude and how they support scientific inquiry.

1-3 Explain how critical thinking feeds a scientific attitude, and smarter thinking for everyday life.

1-4 Describe how psychology developed from early understandings of mind and body to the beginnings of modern science.

1-5 Describe some important milestones in psychology’s early development.

1-6 Explain how behaviorism, Freudian psychology, and humanistic psychology furthered the development of psychological science.