Chpt 1 - Intro to Psych

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"father of psychology"
Wilhelm Wundt (1879) - wanted to measure "atoms of the mind"

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TermDefinition
"father of psychology"
Wilhelm Wundt (1879) - wanted to measure "atoms of the mind"
Structuralism - associated with who?
Edward Titchener - introspection
Functionalism - associated with who and what?
William James
Whiton Calkins
1890s researcher in memory, studied under William James denied PhD by Harvard First female APA president
Floy Washburn
first female PhD in 1894 focused on animal behavior, sensation and perception, and animal behavior
Psychoanalysis - associated with who? When?
Freud, the fucker 1890s emphasizes the ways that unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect behavior
Behaviorism - associated with who? What is it?
Pavlov (sobachki) Watson (he's the asshole - Little Albert) Skinner (rat boxes; rewards>punishment; conditioning)
Gestalt - who, when, what?
Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler 1910s Gestalt == "whole"; the idea that phys. + psych components integrate into a sum greater that parts (consciousness)
Humanism - who, when, what?
Carl Rogers (mnem: Mr. Rogers <3), Abraham Maslow 1960s (peace and love, brother) emphasizes human growth potential and that ppl need love/acceptance/nurturing environment used now in therapy! :D
cognitive psychology - define
study of mental processes ("backtrack" of sorts to struct. + funct except now with the power of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY); processes include leaning, memory, thinking, communicating...
Information Processing - who, what?
George Miller human mind is analogous to a computer
cognitive neuroscience - hwat?
interdisciplinary study of brain linked w cognition
evolutionary psychology - when, what?
1980s study of behavior and mind using principles of nat'l selection; "nature vs nurture", inherited traits
behavioral genetics - when, what?
1800s - 2000s relative power and limits of genetics and environmental influences on behavior genetics environment correlation and range of reaction
W.E.I.R.D - what is, and who coined?
western educated industrialized rich democratic Henrich and Heine
what modern model says to examine humans from multiple perspectives?
biopsychosocial model