Chpt 1 - Intro to Psych
Created by levi-ljean
| Term | Definition |
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"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)
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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
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behavioral genetics - when, what? | 1800s - 2000s
relative power and limits of genetics and environmental influences on behavior
genetics environment correlation and range of reaction
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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 |