A Brief History of Psychology: From Plato to Pavlov

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Before we dive into all the particulars of modern psychology and its research methods, we need to get a little context. When was psychology first developed, and by whom? Was it scientific at that time, or more philosophical? Who was the first to coin the term "psychologist" as a profession? There are so many figures to discuss! Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, and more! Let's check out the history of psychology.
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@ashlynparrott7130 2 жыл бұрын

I took a my one and only psychology course freshman year of highschool. I was a dumb kid, and my teacher wasn't the best at making the content interesting (he had no classes, just made us read a textbook then do quizzes), so you could say I didn't learn a lot. It's been years since then but I've been more hungry for knowledge since I've grown. Your channel has been a great resource: whether I'm trying to study or understand something for college; or for when I'm just trying to relax and need some light but mind-arousing content (like right now!), your channel always has something to get the job done! Thanks for the work that you do, and thanks for helping me keep that spark of learning in my life!

@rinyeongi6322 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing thoughts

@glennpearson9348 2 жыл бұрын

Great intro to psychology, Professor Dave. Looking forward to this series. The modern tools we have today to study brain matter, brain waves, and electrochemical activity in the brain in real time have made psychology a much more meaningful field of study today than, say, even 30 years ago. When I was in college, people who said they were studying psychology for their major were practically laughed it, since it was viewed as something akin to "general studies."

@Zaylic Жыл бұрын

dang this guy knows A LOT about the science stuff

@younggod5230 10 ай бұрын

He does research

@Zaylic 10 ай бұрын

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@cxcbiologywithmissadams5154 8 ай бұрын

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@marniejones331 Ай бұрын

True 😂

@roshaningole7489 Ай бұрын

He has hundreds of experts writing scripts for him

@meredithanddavidmeyer8247 9 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever met Pavlov but his name rings a bell

@miameyer2485 Ай бұрын

Good one

@bsbmakesmesmile84 2 күн бұрын

excelent!

@eukaryoticribosome7867 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is slowly turning into an encyclopedia

@rinyeongi6322 2 жыл бұрын

And i'm here for it lol, better than any school systems that i've ever had

@Arlondev 2 жыл бұрын

I love how you pronounced Thumoeides, sounds like the name of a sleazy new york banker "ay Thumoeides you controllin' that brain still" "Yeah Tommy i still control da brain, whaddya want from me, eh?"

@jamiegallier2106 5 ай бұрын

I’m thoroughly enjoying this series. Thank you.

@Mouse_Librarian 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, my area of expertise. There's quite a lot of interesting psychological history you left out, but I understand since we'd be here forever otherwise. You did well here, keep up the good work!

@itchyfungus8481 9 ай бұрын

Lmao who are you?

@maddoxoehlke2598 9 ай бұрын

@@itchyfungus8481Who the fuck is that guy😂

@sudhirshipurkar404 2 жыл бұрын

I am really grateful to you Sir for the subject taken up for discussion.

@smaxo9368 2 жыл бұрын

Oml I just started psychology in school this year and I didn’t like it much but after watching the video I am finding it so fascinating. Looking so forward to this series :)

@Hello-zw5xo 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure but please strive aloft with amplitude: psychology often abided by "reliable pattern recognition", unfortunately after 2007 information became un-intuitive, I would thread carefully, al-trough I could plausible be erroneous. Undesirable information sources pretenses: Autism = Intellectual Psychosis = Unnecessarily aware schizophrenic = "attacked with body controlling hardware" Wish you the best, and hope you don't get constrained by a myriad psychology's flaws.

@amateur_self_explorer 4 ай бұрын

Simply described... Thank you🙏

@ceballosbox Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching...thanks for information us!

@fumar1746 2 жыл бұрын

Well done Sir...

@SuvanshaBhasinrollno Жыл бұрын

hello professor dave your video really helped me in deeper understanding the basics. thank you soooooo much. love from india

@laxmi1037 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this wonderful information 😊😊

@bharatshah7271 2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain who Hyman Spotnitz is and what he actually did because I almost never see him get any mentions in my psychology class, despite the fact that he did contribute, majorly to psychoanalysis and group therapy(or is he not as notable as I have read/think)?

@zenon7094 2 жыл бұрын

Love your Chanel...Keep up the good work! Maybe you can make a Video about the history of the 'inquisition'? Greetings from germany

@grimpop88 2 ай бұрын

Great explanation

@user-rk2fm3bn3u 5 ай бұрын

Thank you professor ❤

@agustinmur Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video

@rinyeongi6322 2 жыл бұрын

This is very helpful

@dangtuandung2423 2 жыл бұрын

I think you should mention about Lev Vygotsky also. He was a great psychologist.

@millacabral9475 2 жыл бұрын

I heard about him mainly in my developmental psychology class (how we change and grow over the life span).

@emacarter7854 Жыл бұрын

thank you so muchh, very helpful

@juliannasreddin5226 2 жыл бұрын

In the end I think that the mind is the brain, and the brain is the body and if you kill the body, you kill the mind. Great video, i think I'm going to study more psychology in the future.

@Hello-zw5xo 2 жыл бұрын

You're not incorrect, I would like to add that complexity comes when the soul is introduced: as it adheres to it's own fabric of logic, it can still function with just a embedded transmogrify capsule adjacent to chemical feeding however that is a truly dishonorable approach.

@muskduh Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@SilverAssassin210 2 жыл бұрын

It's incorrect to say Ivan Pavlov was a behaviorist. Plavov was a physiologist who studied the digestive system. Classical Conditioning was a serendipitous discovery during that research. Later on, John B. Watson founded Behaviorism, drawing inspiration from Pavlov's results, which showed for the first time that there is an order to learning, not to mention that said results were also empirical and replicable. Watson's Methodological Behaviorism, one of many brands of Behaviorism, for those who care about the difference, was a reaction to the extreme mentalism of the time, which was bogging down psychology with irreplicable results. Kinda like today.

@mitkoogrozev 9 ай бұрын

Exactly what I thought, but I was thinking of Skinner. It seems psychology wend from mind woo woo stuff, to actual science around the behaviorists time, back to mind woo woo today. Although since they now study the brain, they kiind of try to make it scientific, but their presumptions and what they focus on is still totally wrong.

@nathanbuenaobra141 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Professor Jesus!

@Spidermanop986 Жыл бұрын

It's very helpful

@mauteman 8 ай бұрын

Well done. I teach Intro and explain it in a similar way, without the graphics. Haha. I'll fold this in the mix for students. Keep it up.

@sumersoni3137 5 ай бұрын

As far as my knowledge is concerned, Wilhelm Wundt is considered to be the founder of structuralism as he introduced it though I would agree that Titchner made it more popular.

@drewdrew0_011 Жыл бұрын

Hey Dave, will you ever do a course on Philosophy?

@ProfessorDaveExplains Жыл бұрын

Yes it's coming soon!

@ShreyaBansal2110 8 ай бұрын

Can you provide us with some notes regarding psychology?

@haithembelarbi1377 4 ай бұрын

Bravo ❤

@manannaik1341 2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain about Ayurveda pseudoscience?

@urielpolak9949 2 жыл бұрын

Did plato have a pavlovian response when hearing someone ponder existence??

@noshtv8860 2 жыл бұрын

Professor Dave you my nigga!

@Varsley 2 жыл бұрын

Daveeeey

@pandog1566 Жыл бұрын

I can't get over the fact that the philosophy guy was named Play-Doh

@thedoc6413 Жыл бұрын

Dave, do you plan on doing a music theory playlist? What about like some piano fundamentals, since you’re an excellent musician?

@ProfessorDaveExplains Жыл бұрын

I will indeed do that!

@nicoedits6940 4 ай бұрын

No way you didnt talk about Carl Jung

@nsbrown93 2 жыл бұрын

Ah shit I accidently watched a newly released video and now I can't binge the whole series...

@user-rk2fm3bn3u 5 ай бұрын

❤

@donchon7580 2 жыл бұрын

I can't beieve you left out BF skinner.

@WillPhil290 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this was just a brief overview of the history of psychology... It wouldn't surprise me if he gets into more details about that in future videos.

@donchon7580 2 жыл бұрын

@@WillPhil290 BF skinner is one of two pillar of behaviorism. In that Pavlov's work focused on the stimulus and reaction part of learning, BF skinner focused on the schedule in which learning seems to work best.

@WanderTheNomad 2 жыл бұрын

@@donchon7580 He'll probably mention him when he covers behaviorism more in depth.

@coyotehump8253 2 жыл бұрын

The mind operates in past and future while the body is always in present.

@psychology_classes 10 ай бұрын

Hey prof. Are you really an encyclopedia? How do you teach so many subjects? Not just one

@BunnyJolf 2 жыл бұрын

I got a dumb question. Can you instantly debunk flat Earth with only one sentence?

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 жыл бұрын

Gravity exists.

@BunnyJolf 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Gravity is a very good point but they could pull something out of their ass to explain it

@RSainman Жыл бұрын

@@BunnyJolf but even that pulling would only be possible through gravity LMAO

@irfanbey958 Жыл бұрын

I bet every time Pavlov heard a bell he would think of feeding his dogs.

@divinocarllouier.2415 Жыл бұрын

00:53

@EmperorPenguinXRemas 2 жыл бұрын

For functionalism you should have mentioned ma boy William James

@Hanny4God 2 жыл бұрын

Me here🤩🤯

@helpyourcattodrive 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, bc I’ve been trying to watch Jordan Peterson lately.

@preasidium13 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a big jump from Plato to Descartes, were there really no notable ideas in those 2000s yrs?

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 жыл бұрын

A brief history.

@PassionateFlower Жыл бұрын

Dayum you know you're getting old when you realize you would legit swipe right on portraits of dudes from your textbook like Titchener on a dating app. The beard, the strong jawline, the sensible men's fashion, the academic prowess, oh it is working for me honey yes indeed.

@AWOPETURonke 8 ай бұрын

@awopeturonke This is fantastic lecture from Prof Dave. i look forward to reading the series.

@lordkhent Жыл бұрын

thanks professor jesus

@reno3 2 жыл бұрын

I was half beginning to think he would mention Sherlock Holmes.

@laughtale1837 2 жыл бұрын

Freud....he was a great man

@RSainman Жыл бұрын

I think his mum would probably disagree.

@bilalmughal4763 Жыл бұрын

Why you did not add anything about Muslim philosopher?

@remingtontufflips3623 2 ай бұрын

Soulcology

@urielpolak9949 2 жыл бұрын

I havent watched yet but i usually get disappointed. I am quitte immersed in philosophy. Yet it is nothing like what goes for philosophy. The wondering and pondering. The activity of the brain. No there are philosophy’s that require physical transformation. Physical hard labour . Just “philosiphying gets one no were. Not even complete intelectual understanding.

@-JA- 2 жыл бұрын

@vikraal6974 2 жыл бұрын

I think you mistook Philosophy for Psychology. What Rene Descartes questioned does not have importance in Psychology.

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 жыл бұрын

Of course it does. It simply does not qualify as modern psychology. Pre-scientific attempts to explain phenomena now explained by chemistry and physics are also important, they just have to be properly contextualized.

@alokat1221 2 жыл бұрын

very early

@vlogishinshu Жыл бұрын

Ooo seems like a lot of work is still needed to be done.. psychology is not fully developed

@helpyourcattodrive 2 жыл бұрын

How are there only 65 comments w 1.76 million subs …

@vikiw124 4 ай бұрын

Is this guy smart I can't tell

@oscarabdullai6260 2 жыл бұрын

First here 😂

@niknik7470 2 жыл бұрын

Shiiiiiiit intro 😂

@chrisdunne6202 2 жыл бұрын

the stuff about the unconscious mind influencing behaviour explains why homophobic people always take the day off work to attend gay events

@GhostHawk76 2 жыл бұрын

These days online community obsessed with James Webb Space Telescope, astronomy topics and Parallel Universes. If you can create content with these topics, you will get a lot of likes and followers..

@mastermaniacx1164 2 жыл бұрын

@WanderTheNomad 2 жыл бұрын

He's already got 45 videos on Astronomy/Astrophysics and 27 videos on Modern Physics.

@suchismitaaaa Жыл бұрын

shut up

@BornEnlightenedNoSell 8 ай бұрын

Daca vrei sa fi liber nu te încrede în psihologie si ceea ce este scris !

@derrick9635 2 жыл бұрын

Big pharma and the DSM will make psychology redundant, if not already . Has anyone done research on social economic background in regards labeling and medication.

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 жыл бұрын

What you have just said is utterly meaningless.

@Dizrak 2 жыл бұрын

Please, don't bring Big pharma bullcrap here. Do it only on your pseudoscientific forums.

@Mouse_Librarian 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who literally works for 'big pharma', any accusation of 'control' or discriminatory behavior is not only false, but really stupid. The only people who think like that are the same nutjobs that are the type to accept any and all conspiracy crap.

@hattruck8607 2 жыл бұрын

What does this even mean?

@horrourstories 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry dude, you've just entered a long list of 'scientists who should stay away from history'. While some of this video is superficially correct on the idea (occasionally) there is no way you can describe anything anyone did before the mid 19th century as psychology. It simply wasn't. Not conceptually, practically or philosophically. Leave history to the historians, and we promise we won't do stuff on chemistry.

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and I didn't call it psychology, as I clearly demarcated philosophy and psychology. Also, this was written by a psychologist, so take your baseless flex elsewhere, sweetie.

@galileog8945 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Rich, who is going to write the history of chemistry? According to your "brilliant" insight, no one. It turns out the history of chemistry is being written by chemists with some passion for history. Only chemists can describe the history of their discipline. How can your hypothetical "historian" possibly write it without understanding the science?

@joqqeman 2 жыл бұрын

Like many disciplines, meaning of "psychology" has changed over time. In regards to the origins of psychology this video has a very basic commonly accepted overview of how philosophical study of mind eventually was differentiated into a separate (social?) science discipline. What exactly was wrong in any of the content?

@FelisImpurrator 2 жыл бұрын

It's very funny that this criticism entirely hinges on an issue that was completely resolved literally three minutes in. Besides, this kind of academic gatekeeping has always been a vile poison upon the profession.

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